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Anthony Volpe's deep-rooted Yankees fan base

Anthony Volpe's deep-rooted Yankees fan base

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October 30, 2024

Will Anthony Volpe get the chance to realize his dream for his youth team? That's cool enough. But the story behind the Volpe family's deep-rooted Yankees fan base is even more special.

Volpe, who hit a grand slam to help the Bronx Bombers win 11-4 over the Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday, told an incredible story about four generations' connection to the Yankees.

For Volpe's paternal grandfather – also named Anthony – the Yankees were more than just another team, and rooting for them was more than just a pastime. The elder Anthony Volpe's father (the Yanks' second-year shortstop's great-grandfather) served overseas in World War II and returned to his young son a stranger.

“His mom basically told him, 'That's your dad,'” Volpe recalled during Tuesday's postgame press conference. “He didn’t know him, didn’t recognize him, didn’t do anything.”

It was difficult to bond. But baseball can always be counted on to bring people together, and for father and son, it was no exception.

“The way he says it, the way he … met his father, he would sit on his lap every night and they would listen to the Yankees together,” Volpe said. “So for him it’s more than just sport.”

It would certainly have been difficult for either of them to imagine their relatives playing for the Yankees many years later – let alone achieving major success in the World Series – as they crowded around the radio night after night to watch Hearing sounds of the ball game Keep the season alive.

But after Volpe's Grand Slam on Tuesday, that's simply reality. And surely a father and son were tuned in somewhere and made their own memories.

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