Book Review: Free Byrd
Paul Byrd was a journeyman Major Leaguer who played 14 seasons for 7 different teams, but just like everyone, he has a story to tell. This story is told in his book Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life. This 219-page work details the life of the major leaguer as well as how his […]
ULTIMATE YANKEE QUIZ (Part 2)
By Harvey Frommer As a result of popular demand, for your reading and wondering pleasure, here come the Yankees in quiz form from the professor of Bronx Bomber content. No peeking at the answers. Take the quiz first. Five correct answers makes you an “All Star.” Lower than that read some of my Yankee books. […]
All The Time in The World: Series Games Averaging Over 3.5 Hours!
Should you happen to find yourself off in dreamland during one of this year’s World Series games and wake up to find the game hasn’t even reached the seventh-inning stretch, don’t get too worried – you’re not living an episode of the Twilight Zone. You’re just living in the world of baseball as it is […]
ULTIMATE YANKEE QUIZ
By Harvey Frommer For your reading and wondering pleasure, here come the Yankees in quiz form from the professor of Bronx Bomber content. No peeking at the answers. Take the quiz first. Five correct answers makes you an “All Star.” Lower than that read some of my Yankee books. Herewith: 150 provocative questions and answers with some […]
World Series Odds 2017 Revisited
Back on August 31st, 2017 I made a World Series prediction and although I left out 3 teams (sorry Diamondbacks, Rockies and Twins), but I did get every other team right. I am even hitting .500 with my final prediction, The Los Angeles Dodgers won the NL pennant and are in the 2017 World Series! […]
PRELUDE: Here come the Yankees
By Harvey Frommer From a stumbling start back in 1903, from owners that since then in the main have set a top drawer tone and a high standard, from managers who asserted their will pushing players to perform beyond their abilities, who established winning ways setting the pattern for others to follow, from stars and […]
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
By Harvey Frommer Throughout the long history of baseball there have been poignant, exciting, dramatic moments. But very few can compare to what happened on October 3, 1951 at the old Coogan’s Bluff.” Others, especially in Brooklyn, call it “Dat Day.” But no matter what label is applied it was a time to remember. […]
REMEMBERING MEL ALLEN
By Harvey Frommer I had the very good fortune in 1990 to visit the legendary Mel Allen at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. I was there to collect memorabilia for the “Stars of David: Jews in Sports” exhibit that I was the curator and executive producer for at the Klutznik Museum in Washington, D.C. My […]
REMEMBERING ELSTON HOWARD
“A man of great gentleness and dignity” –on his Plaque in Monument Park “He deserves credit and where would I be without him? Phew! He can give me a job in the outfield and he can catch, too. Good kid, too. He’s good.”—Casey Stengel With all the newspaper headlines today documenting angst and anger […]
Kershaw Is MLB’s Only Hope to Have a 20 Game Winning Pitcher this Season
With the end of the 2017 MLB regular season close to an end, it’s time to take a look at the season and review some of the interesting stats and try to guess where things will end up when the season finishes. While this won’t affect the betting odds of the baseball game, it does shed […]
RED BARBER
“Red was perhaps the most literate sports announcer I ever met.”-Vin Scully In my early and middle years of writing sports book, I called on Red Barber to blurb them. He never failed. He along with Mel Allen those long ago summer nights spun the tales of New York City Baseball and hooked me on […]
Houston Astros vs. Washington Nationals MLB Odds, Betting Pick & Analysis
In what might have given rise to a probable preview of the World Series, the Washington Seals team (at 74 – 48) will make a stopover at the Houston Astros squad (at 76 – 48) for the initial lot of three sessions on last week of August as strong road contenders embarking on major sports […]
YANKEE MONIKERS & NICKNAMES
A lot of things are not the way they used to be. And that is especially true in the world of sports. Baseball once held bragging rights to the best and most nicknames. And the Yankees led the pack in that regard. For your edification and pleasure, a sampler of some of the of the […]
Dan Driessen, Forgotten Cog of the Big Red Machine
Do you remember your first trip to a Major League ballpark? The sights and sounds of the Big Leagues can be dizzying for a young fan getting his first in-person taste of the game at the highest level. That was certainly the case for me when I visited Riverfront Stadium on June 23, […]
World Series Odds as we enter September
It just so happens, every year I am asked at about this time in the season who I think will make the playoffs and what are the odds of those teams making it to the World Series. So without further ado, here are my predictions entering September … The American League In the American League […]
The top 3 MLB Championship picks for 09/02/17
As the most part of the tournament is over, there are still quite some matches left for the baseball lovers which cannot be missed. with a lot of great matches in the ongoing week, another Sunday is coming where you can actually witness some of the greatest matches of this tournament. More than anything, you […]
Summer of ’41: Joe DiMaggio’s Epic 56-Game Hitting Streak
With all the hype and hoopla surrounding Aaron Judge and with all the comparisons to the accomplishments of the Yankee Clipper, what Joe Di did in 1941 stands at the top of the list . So here is the flashback. Harvy FrommPhoer The 1941 Yankees were a loaded team. They would win 101 games, the […]
REMEMBERING YOGI BERRA
“Mr. Berra is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.” –Casey Stengel “Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball, is like talking to Homer about the gods.” – Bart Giamatti The kid who grew up in St. Louis eating banana sandwiches with mustard grew up to be one of the legends of legends of […]
The Rivalry: Yanks vs Red Sox
Babe Ruth at Fenway Back then, as the story goes, there was a get-together in the woods. A Red Sox fan, a Cub fan and a Pirate fan were there. They all wondered when their team would make it to the World Series again and decided to call on God for advice. The Cub fan […]
Baseball’s Golden Era: New York Cubans
By Ismael Nunez From 1947 to 1957, a baseball team from New York City would win the World Series. The three teams present in New York City were the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Some of the greatest players came out of this decade. The Yankees would win five World Series […]
It’s time to go get Verlander
I very rarely ever do this publicly. I like to think of myself as a dispassionate analyst of the game, but at my core I am a fan first. So, when the Astros didn’t make a deal at the deadline (okay, fine, they got a lefty with an ERA around 6.00) I was pretty disappointed. […]
How Murderers’ Row Shaped Baseball
When Yankee owner Colonel Ruppert’s “Rough Riders,” as some called them in the late 1920s, were not going head to head against their American League competition, they were playing exhibition games in Buffalo, Omaha, Rochester, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis… Everyone in the little cities and small towns wanted to catch a glimpse of the Babe, Lou […]
Dog Days at Fenway Park
With the crowds having fun at the hub in Boston, with the team gearing up to go deep this October, with a roster loaded with talent and more on the way, a flashback to Sox in the Sixties is almost like culture shock. September 28th, 1960, Red Sox vs. Orioles. Overcast, dank, chilly the final […]
Book Review: Baseball Before We Knew It
Our national pastime has a long-debated history. Was it really good o’ Abner Doubleday who invented the game? How ‘bout that Spalding character we keep hearing about and to this day has his name on baseball gloves in sporting goods stores? How was he involved? The New York Knickerbockers…weren’t they the first club? Aren’t they […]
Grading out the Starting Pitching Market
It is no secret that the Houston Astros need starting pitching. That being said, finding teams willing to trade that pitching and then meeting the Astros needs to not only compete this year but into the future can be a bit tricky. So, we will go through the list of teams that might be sellers […]
Book Review: Mind Game
Sabermetrics almost seems old hat now. It doesn’t have the cache it did even just a decade ago when it seemed like it was still being shunned by some in the baseball community. While the new age statistics are now widely accepted and pretty much everyone has accepted that using them is the way to […]
How to raise your batting average 100 points
Do you want to raise your batting average by 100 points or more this season? The quickest and easiest way to do this is to perfect the art of bunting. You can be a successful bunter if you follow these simple steps. Show the bunt at the right time- Make sure that you do not square […]
Top 15 Best Baseball Players of All Time
It’s never easy to rank sportsmen due to how much loyalty these athletes manage to foster. However, certain facts have to be taken into consideration, and, with that in mind, this is a listing of 15 of the best baseball players in the history of the game. Roger Clemens Clemens posted Earned Run Averages –or […]
Book Review: Omar!
For Indians fans of the 1990’s there was no one who defined the era more than Omar Vizquel. The gregarious shortstop awed fans with his plays with the glove, earning him nine Gold Glove awards by the time he published his auto-biography with Bob Dyer of the Akron Beacon Journal. As the book title eludes, […]
Top 10 professional baseball players with glasses
Players who have weak eyesight may be intimated by the fact that they have to wear glasses on the field. However, ever since the earliest days of baseball, notable baseball players have sported spectacles during baseball games. Here is a list of top 10 professional baseball players with glasses. So next time if you have to wear glasses on […]
