Remembering Wee Willie Keeler
With all the hype and hoopla about today’s mainly over-rated baseball players, with all the fuss about launch angles and shifts, “bullpenning” and instant replay over and over again by the non-stop talkers in the TV booths and on the field of play, it is refreshing to flash back to those who played the game […]
How Far the Game Has Come
With apologies to the great poet Robert Frost, the game was ours before we were the game’s. And the game goes on decade after decade and now into the 2018 baseball post-season it still continues as part of the fabric of American culture. Much, however, has changed in the national pastime as a look back […]
Yankees: Spring training: Mini-Timeline
By Harvey FrommerWith the NFL going down its home stretch, with baseball and spring training on the horizon, for your reading pleasure a flashback thru Yankee history to see some of the marker moments for the franchise focused on the varied and unusual spring training environments. 1905-1906: After spending two springs in Atlanta, manager Clark […]
The Babe’s 1923 World Series watch is for sale
Babe Ruth’s 1923 World Series pocket watch – which was awarded to all the championship players, is to be auctioned in New York. The watch was thought to be lost for decades, but it’s been found and is expected to bring $750,000 or more. The Babe batted .368 and hit three home runs during that […]
A Moment in Time, A Book Review
It’s amazing how fast one’s life can change. In one split second on October 3,1951 aveteran pitcher with multiple All Star appearances went from being one of the most respected players in baseball to forever being known as a goat. When Brooklyn Dodger right hander Ralph Branca gave up the homerun to New York […]
