- - he told ststories abouot growining up in brbrooklyn, his loveve for the y yankees. - wawalking arouound in h his mini yayankees unifi, took a a lot of veverbal anand physicalal abuse. - whenen i was twowo years ol, i was s thrown in n the mud by thehe other kidids on the b . so i bececame a veryry determid yanknkee fan. it's a sigign of indepependen. - but t it gave rurudy a lilifelong senense of being the outsidider, the ununderdo. - - he would d do what he e wd when he wawanted and foforce peoplele, whetether they l liked it oror, to pay attttention. - - undoubtedldly made himi, you u know, pugngnacious to somome degree that we'veve seen througughout the r rest ofof his life.e.