Yo La Tengo experienced a full circle career moment on Thursday when Ira Kaplan took the mount at Citi Field to throw the first pitch at a New York Mets game. The group’s name comes from a decades-old story from the team’s 1962 inaugural season when center fielder Richie Ashburn and shortstop Elio Chacón worked out a way to avoid collisions by calling fly balls in Spanish. Instead of “I got it,” Ashburn would shout: “Yo la tengo!”
“Please welcome guitarist and vocalist Ira Kaplan from the group Yo La Tengo,...
“Please welcome guitarist and vocalist Ira Kaplan from the group Yo La Tengo,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
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