Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1964, to parents of Puerto Rican ancestry, current Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez grew up in Manhattan, and in 1973, he and his father went to East 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, for the future major league outfielder and manager’s first Major League Baseball game.
“It’s the first place I ever watched a major league game,” Martinez said before the start of this weekend’s three-game set with the Yankees in the new Yankee Stadium.
“I was nine years old. I came to see what was one of my favorite players, Reggie Jackson, my dad brought me, and I got to really go down there and see him up close, so that was always something that I always remember, coming to Yankee Stadium.