Month: March 2010
Watching the good Doctor work
Late last night, Marty Noble put up a blog post reminiscing about crooner Johnny Maestro and hurler Doc Gooden, and it brought up some memories of my own that I didn’t include in my post about Gooden’s Nike billboard in…
What a destructive day!
March 26 is a big day in sports stadia demolition. Ten years ago today, the Kingdome was imploded; this is the demoversary. In New York today, another stadium from the ’70s saw the last section of its upper deck pulled…
Photo Friday: Vintage Spring Training
In some ways, I’m still not caught up from vacation, because I hadn’t intended to skip two slide-show Fridays. The plan was to have this one in the bag for two weeks ago, then resume with the weekly collections the…
When Gooden was larger than life
Yesterday’s news about Dwight Gooden has brought out a lot of old photographs of Doctor K, but this one is the one I like the best. Two young stars, their potential seemingly limitless — 1985 All-Star! — clowning around after…
Citi Field’s All-Star Luncheon
Drew Nieporent, Scott Kleckner, Floyd Cardoz and Dave Pasternack My wife and I had the chance to go to Citi Field today for the unveiling of this year’s menu. I’ll leave the full culinary write-up to Casey (look for it…
Why not Tejada?
Opening Day is less than two weeks away, and Jose Reyes will be back on the field in Port St. Lucie tomorrow to resume baseball activities, so we all know we’ll be cheering Angel Pagan at the top of the…
All my jerseys in Jersey
Fanboy There’s an interesting discussion over at Mets Police about personalized jerseys. I find it interesting because I have not come across such a large group of people who are in the “Your Name Here” group. I have been drawn…
And we’re back
After a thoroughly enjoyable, active and at the same time relaxing vacation, I’m back at it. It will take me a bit to catch up on some of the stuff I missed, but I did ignore several developments, too. There’s…