It's never a dull moment with my Gramp and his buddies -- especially when they're played by actors! I usually like to separate work and family, but the scene at Monday night's 61* premier in New York's Chelsea neighborhood was too cool to not write about.

There were tons of Yankees around: Ford, Cerv, Boyer, Pepitone, Branca, Jeter, Sojo, Bellinger, Knoblauch, Posada. And lots of actors, even aside from those in the movie: Stanley Tucci, Robin Williams, Sarah Jessica Parker, a whole gang from The Sopranos. Then throw in the Mantles and the Marises, and Donald Trump.

It took me a long time to realize that as giddy as most people get about famous actors, famous actors get just as giddy about ballplayers. And when I asked Robin Williams if he'd take a picture with my Grampa, that's how he was -- positively giddy. "You mean Yogi?!" he said. "I'd love to!" After smiling for my Aunt Betsy's camera, Robin -- wearing grey Prada sneakers that perfectly matched his suit -- called his wife on his cell phone to tell her what had happened. "Yes, Yogi!!" we heard him say. (One of the highlights of my evening was getting Robin to do his terrific imitation of a hot dog.)

Gramp and Whitey sat next to each other, which is trouble in itself. I asked if they were going to yap it up through the whole movie and got a handful of popcorn tossed at me. I took that as a yes. When Whitey first saw Anthony Michael Hall come on screen, he said, "That's me!" To which Grampa replied, "It is? It doesn't look like you." Whitey came back with, "Oh yeah, well you don't look like you either." And I guess Gramp wasn't really convinced otherwise, because every time Paul Borghese came on screen, Gramp would say to Whitey, "Is that me?" and my Grammy Carmen would say to Grampa, "Yogi, is that you?"

My cousin Bridgette and I didn't know whether to watch the movie or just listen to them. The string of laughs, I remember that!'s and When did that happen?'s could have made an entire sequel. It was a little weird, watching actors play Gramp and Whitey, but it had to be weird for the actors, too. They had to watch Gramp and Whitey watching their performances of Gramp and Whitey.

They say it was the ghost of Ruth stirring up the winds that kept Maris' 60th inside the park in Baltimore. Looking at Kevin Maris and David Mantle, you'd think the ghosts of Roger and the Mick showed up to watch the movie. Dead ringers, both of them. Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane are lucky Billy Crystal didn't see the Maris and Mantle boys first, or they'd each have been out a part. Pepper was perfect for Maris. He sat right in front of us in the theater and was much shorter than we expected. I'd give him 5'8" on a good day.

But Pepper did come out with a Yogi story. Last summer in Detroit, Gramp was in town to consult with Crystal and the rest of the movie guys, and they all went out to eat. "The waiter came over to take a drink order," Pepper recalls. "Yogi said, 'I'll take just one ounce of vodka.' The waiter said, 'Would you like that on the rocks?' and Yogi said, 'No need, but I'll take lots of ice.' "

Like I said -- never a dull moment.