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Berra, Teixeira, Dickey Win Munsons
New York Yankees beloved Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra will be joined by Yankees star first baseman Mark Teixeira, Mets standout pitcher R.A. Dickey, and newly-inducted Basketball Hall of Famer and...
View ArticleTwitter Ten: Top Minor League Players To Follow
This weeks’ column is a spotlight for MILB players in the Twitter world. I had a few criteria: Consistency – Like their game on the field, this was of the highest importance. Consistent, fairly...
View ArticleTo The Farm With Jessica Quiroli: NL East
The Nationals aren’t treading the off-season waters quietly. Their approach continues to be aggressive in their quest to genuinely compete in the National League East. That was proven again earlier...
View ArticleTwitter Next Ten: 11-20 Minor League Players To Follow
There’s no way to expect massive response when doing any story. But the Twitter Ten went way beyond expectations. There was a lot of positive response, but a good mix of the disappointed. When the idea...
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Gotham Baseball: The Winter Issue and WBCC Convention Guide
Gotham Baseball, the official magazine of the 2012 Mohegan Sun World Baseball & Softball Coaches’ Convention, is proud to announce the release of the 2011=2012 Winter Issue, which includes a...
View ArticleGary Carter: Remembering “The Kid” Brings Out The Kid In Me
I must’ve been a little over nine years old when I found out that one of my favorite players, Mets third baseman Hubie Brooks, was heading off -to Montreal of all places- to become an Expo. In return,...
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‘Tex’ Talks Getting On Base, Yanks 2012 and Munson
New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, who last night received a Thurman Munson Award, met with the media prior to the event. He discussed a variety of topics, including the possibility that he...
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Singleton Recalls N.Y. Home
Though he now broadcasts Yankees games on the team’s RSN, YES Network, Ken Singleton’s baseball career was forged in Baltimore. After two years in New York and three in Montreal, the slugging...
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Peterson Brings Unique Pitching Approach To New Role with O’s
Rick Peterson rarely arrives at a professional baseball club when things are going great. But somewhere along the line his free thinking approach to pitching, which usually involves the body, the mind...
View ArticleMets’ Dickey Throws ‘Smoke’
It has been an interesting off-season, to say the least, for Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey. First, the knuckleballer turned heads with his climb of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro to help combat human...
View ArticleNEW Gotham Baseball: The 2012 Early Season Issue
Gotham Baseball is proud to announce the release of its latest issue, The 2012 Early Season Issue, featuring stories about the Past, Present and Future of New York’s Game. Co-Publishers Mark Healey...
View ArticleNew York Heroes Talk Father’s Day
Baseball, maybe more than any other sport, connects fathers and their children. Watching games, Recalling seasons and players, the great and not-so-great, bind across generations. MLB celebrates...
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Jimmy Breslin, Tom Kelly, Gene Michael, “Walpole Joe” Morgan, Jeff Nelson and...
The Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame today inducted its 2012 honorees, who included: 1. Jimmy Breslin, author of one of the most famous baseball books ever written, Can’t Anybody Here Play This...
View ArticleBrooklyn Cyclones Rainy Lara
Brooklyn, New York - RHP Rainy Lara (7-2, 3.44) has been consistent in fifty five innings of work, along with a pitching staff that has consistently led the New York Penn League. His ERA and theirs –...
View ArticleGary Carter’s Harley Davidson On Steiner Sports ‘Perfect’ Auction To Benefit...
The Harley Davidson motorcycle owned by the late, great Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter will go on the auction block to benefit charity on the Steiner Sports ”Perfect 25th Anniversary Auction,” it was...
View ArticleYanks’ Sabathia, Mets’ Davis To Be Honored With Munson Awards
New York Yankees pitching ace CC Sabathia and New York Mets slugging first baseman Ike Davis will be honored at the 33rd Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner on Tuesday night, February 5, 2013, at the...
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Go West, Young Man: New Look At A Half-Century Of Expansion
The 100th anniversary of the first game at Ebbetts Field is an appropriate time to look at expansion and its effect on the game, if only to make the natural connection between the stadium whose...
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Dallas Green Tells It Like It Is In Memoir
Tuesday, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vince Lombardi, there was quite a bit of discussion about “old-school” coaches in sports. Lombardi was, after all, as old school as it...
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For Mets Fans By Mets Fans: The Queens Baseball Convention
Last year, I opined that the New York Mets were doing their fans a disservice by not holding a FanFest, Winter Caravan or similar promotion to gets fans excited about the upcoming year. There is NO...
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Gardner, Cone, Kaat, Gee Among 2014 Munson Honorees
The 34th Annual Thurman Munson Awards, which remember the late, great Yankees captain, will be presented at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Tuesday night, February 4, 2014, and the honorees...
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