There is the anticipation, if not an expectation, that some of the people in attendance might not know much about the performer’s background beyond the last decade.
Maybe they’ll marvel at the winemaker also being a Grammy-nominated musician.
“I’ve gotten a little bit of that the last few years,” Bernie Williams said with a chuckle. “I haven’t played in quite a while, and I’ve built a fanbase solely for music, so there are some people who don’t know.”
He meant “played” as in baseball. It’s hard time imagine Williams not immediately being recognized as a famous athlete, particularly before a New York audience. Still, the 54-year-old insists that enough time has passed, and that he crosses paths with enough people who aren’t at all sports fans.
But, before Williams became a full-time musician and moonlighting vintner, he was a New York Yankees great, a star of the dynastic 1990s teams that won four World Series championships.
