Claudell’s clout
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…
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…
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…
Came across an amusing anecdote in a collection of baseball stories (said to be true stories, pulled from various archives and news reports) first published in … imagine this … 1949. It seems that a man named Charles White proposed,…
The Babe has a presence I finally made it out to Yankee Stadium ’09 yesterday. It was a gorgeous, mid-70s afternoon and I didn’t even need a seat in the shade to feel comfortable, but I had one, and I…
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…
The still image above is from a British tourism film about New York City in 1963. Along with scenes from Idlewild (pre-JFK) Airport, Chinatown and the downtown skyline is a segment on Yankee Stadium. The footage was taken on July…
Donnie Baseball stands in Didn’t get around to today’s slideshow as early as I have the past two weeks, so no attempt at a soundtrack today and no particular reason for choosing this set. This was a late-August game between…
Temple’s return to bowl play today in the EagleBank Bowl has stirred up a lot of mentions of the short-lived Garden State Bowl, which was played at the Meadowlands from 1978-81. I once had a program from one of those…
So this just occurred to me. Have you seen the opening montage of Woody Allen’s Manhattan? It’s a slideshow of scenes from around New York — pretty much all of them in Manhattan — with Woody’s voiceover and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody…