Martin Brodeur shut out the Dallas Stars tonight, 4-0, for the 106th whitewash of his career. He now stands four behind Walter Johnson’s pitching record for the most by a North American team sport athlete. Though it’s not the same…
In the interest of continuing to chronicle the demise of Tiger Stadium, I found this short piece interesting: The scoreboard from the old ballpark has been installed at Wayne State University’s baseball field. The last sentence of the story/press release…
The Jets are about to play the last football game at the Meadowlands, and though I was 7 years old when they first kicked off there, I don’t remember their first game in New Jersey, or their time at Shea…
I’ve always been intrigued by Forgotten-NY’s post about the remnant of a former Brooklyn Dodgers ballpark in the borough, the ballpark they used before Ebbets came along. Curious, I’d long had it in the back of my mind one day…
I hadn’t seen this photo of Tiger Stadium’s demolition before. It may be the most heartbreaking photo in the sad story of the unfortunate end of the ballpark’s long, rich history. Deadspin doesn’t credit where it stole the pic from,…
I’m not the biggest hockey fan, but I do enjoy the sport — mostly live or during the playoffs, because really, why play 81 games when the postseason is about half that (give or take)? But I have had my…
While watching the beginning of what has become this amazing pitchers’ duel between the Red Sox and Yankees (it’s now in the 12th, still scoreless), I wondered when the last time was that a team pitched a no-hitter against its…
They’re taking down the last pieces of Tiger Stadium. The old ballpark — older than Yankee Stadium, as old as Wrigley Field and Fenway Park — hasn’t hosted a game in nearly 10 years, but it remained on its Corktown…
Manny Ramirez came to the plate with the bases loaded last night in the Dodgers’ game against the Nationals, and Arturo and I agreed that the career grand slams record is one we’d like to see him break. Arturo is…