While for many New York Yankees, Old-Timers’ Day is about reminiscing on their playing days, for Jim Leyritz it will be more of a homecoming. Leyritz, who had been banned from the festivities following a 2007 drunk driving incident which resulted in the death of Freida Veitch, is thrilled for the opportunity to return to the Yankee Stadium field:
It means the world to me. It was hard to see the guys on the field and not be part of it. I don’t want to think the Yankees define who I am, but I spent 11 years there, it was my family.