Rooting for the Yankees is like...

[Alice Faber]

Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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> Los Angeles Times, Feb 23, 1966, p. B1
> "The Old Breed" by Jim Murray
> I guess I'm getting sensitive in my old age. Getting the feeling people
> don't appreciate me.
> It all began when I heard the guy on television say, "Well, it was Bennett
> Cerf who once said, 'Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S.
> Steel.'"
> Then, Bill Veeck, in his latest book, "The Hustler's Handbook," notes "The
> Yankees should sue the guy who first said that 'Rooting for the Yankees is
> like rooting for U.S. Steel' because he articulated for so many people
> what they had already come to feel."
> Ok, now, you want to know who said it first? You're looking at him. Old
> numero uno. James Patrick Murray.
> You don't believe it? All right. Do you happen to have a copy of Life for
> April 17, 1950 around the house? Gen. Eisenhower is on the cover. He
> always was in those days. Open to Page 25 and you'll find a story titled,
> "I Hate The Yankees" by a guy identified as "James Murray, Time-Life
> correspondent in Los Angeles."

Is this the Jim Murray who was a long-time sports columnist for the LA
Times?

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