Hooked ’em
SI’s Stewart Mandel tweeted this photo of Roger Clemens at the national championship game. I didn’t see one of Mindy McCready, though.
SI’s Stewart Mandel tweeted this photo of Roger Clemens at the national championship game. I didn’t see one of Mindy McCready, though.
Who would’ve thought that after two starts — at least the one by hard-throwing CC Sabathia, if not the one by ground-ball specialist Chien-Ming Wang — the Yankees would have zero strikeouts in eight innings by their starting pitchers? Who…
The last time two 300-game winners took the mound to start in the same game was June 28, 1986, when Phil Niekro and Cleveland visited the Angels and Don Sutton. Neither starter got the decision in the 9-3 California (as…
Interesting how Shane Victorino answers that question. This graphic appears in ESPN The Magazine’s baseball preview package (an issue I’m just getting to now after finishing SI’s). As it explains, there’s one for each division asking players to answer only…
In a weird coincidence on Tuesday, I found myself reading early in No Minor Accomplishment, Bob Golon’s account of baseball’s revival in New Jersey beginning in 1994, about the Yankees’ flirtation with moving to the Meadowlands. On the day George…
I’m not doing a good job with the idea of posting timely updates here, that’s for sure. It’s Thursday, five days after a doubleheader I undertook involving four teams in three leagues in two ballparks in two boroughs in the…
The Mets are celebrating 45 seasons at Shea Stadium this summer before they open the sparkling new Citi Field in 2009, and as the new ballpark takes its final shape behind the giant scoreboard in right-center field, it’s hard not…