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To commemorate the final game at Yankee and Shea Stadiums, some of the NY papers put out supplements with their editions. Newsday ran a 20-page insert, “Thanks for the Memories,” which included: “One final night to look,” by Mark Herrmann 21 events in Herrman’s “Catching up on history” (21. because the last game was played […]
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To borrow a phrase from the late Phil Rizzuto. From AmericanChronicle.com: …the Upper Deck Company has released the largest baseball trading card set ever assembled in tribute to the world-renowned sports shrine. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” (YSL) collection is a 6,661-card compilation chronicling every single New York Yankees home game ever played at the current […]
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My feature on tribute books to the stadium is the lead story on the current on-line issue of Bookreporter.com. Titles include: MEMORIES OF YANKEE STADIUM by Scott Pitoniak A YANKEE STADIUM SCRAPBOOK: A Lifetime of Memories by David Fischer YANKEE STADIUM: A TRIBUTE: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008 by Les Krantz REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM: An […]
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I wonder if, instead of the traditional rendition of “New York, New York” — the “sign off” at Yankee’s home games — we’ll be treated Ol’ Blue Eyes crooning “My Way.” “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain…” In addition to Tom Verducci’s “first stadium” account of the end […]
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According to this AP story, “Taxpayers and ticket buyers are the losers in plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies to build the new Yankee Stadium….” And Mets fans shouldn’t be smug about it: “[Assemblyman Richard Brodsky] said the concerns about subsidies for private businesses without direct benefit to the public […]
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Every now and again we have someone who brings up the question: Did Babe Ruth actually “call” his home run in the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs? Many say no, some, like this gentleman, swear he did. Who’s to say? Grainy film of the event make it difficult to tell with absolute certainty. […]
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In 2006, Roy Green published 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees and 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox. Released by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, these were nice little books (a similar book about the Mets also came out that year), full of pictures and brief texts about the author’s favorite moments and people for […]
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Leave it to the NY Sun to cast a cloud over the final season of Yankee Stadium, castigating the ball club for what it didn’t do rather than highlight just the bright spots.
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From the July 7 issue of The New Yorker, a piece about a statistical anomaly and the New York Yankees.
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From the NY Daily News, this article about the demise of Paperbacks Plus, the last independent bookstore in the Bronx. …every Yankee baseball player-cum-author has held a book signing at Paperbacks Plus, including Yogi Berra, Paul O’Neill and Derek Jeter. “Every Yankee player who’s ever come through here has been super nice to everyone, especially […]
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This blogger at Soxlinks does a better job than I at parsing the anti-Bradley review from the Boston Phoenix.
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Not a review of the former big leaguer’s new autobiography, per se, but a testimony to the man by Tom Shanahan of the Voice of San Diego.
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Born this day in 1887, McCarthy, one of the few managers in the Hall of Fame, led the Yankees to eight pennants and seven world championships. he also led the Chicago Cubs (one pennant) and the Boston Red Sox. The Amazon Report on Joe McCarthy: Joe Mccarthy: Achitect of the Yankee Dynasty
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Born in 1919, Raschi won 120 games for the Yankees during their juggernaut years, averaging 20 wins from 1948-51, including three straight 21-victory seasons. He also pitched briefly for the Cardinals and K.C. Athletics. Not bad considering he didn’t become a major leaguer until 27, and didn’t join the rotation full-time until he was 29. […]
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The Yankees first African-American player would have been 70 today. One of Casey Stengel’s great — if not politically correct — lines was, “As Peter Golenbock noted in Dynasty, “When I finally get a [black player], I get the only one who can’t run.” After his death, Howard’s wife, Arlene, published Elston and Me: The […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
* Define "dynasty"
September 24, 2008
The Red Sox won their game last night against the Indians, bringing an end to the Yankees’ string, which reaches back to 1995. Some would say that any sports season is a failure if you don’t come away with a championship. Others disagree, believing it’s all relative (just ask any franchise that’s been mired in […]
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