Tommy Lasorda’s brief return to managing
In 2008, the Dodgers called on Tommy Lasorda to return to the bench.
In 2008, the Dodgers called on Tommy Lasorda to return to the bench.
I went to my first Major League baseball game in 1983, and a year hasn’t gone by since without me setting foot inside a stadium. That’s obviously not happening this year, but it doesn’t mean I’m letting this tire fire…
The seventh baseball game I ever attended should count twice. It began on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and ended on Sunday evening. Yankees 5, Tigers 4, 18 innings played over the course of six hours and one…
My freshman year of high school, I negotiated with my parents to miss school and go to Opening Day in New York.
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Bo Jackson is 54 years old today. Fifty-four! That doesn’t seem right, but Time doesn’t care. It means his peak was half a lifetime ago: He played the 1990 season — his last full baseball season — at 27…
David Wright swung and the ball shot into the air. I spotted it immediately against the ink-black sky, the white orb growing bigger as it flew closer. When you’ve been to enough ballgames, you know how to read fly balls,…
The LIRR train from Penn Station was standing-room only, though Mom and I shared a three-seater with a commuter. The walk from the station to the Jackie Robinson Rotunda was crowded, and the plaza was packed. We got inside and…