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Flashback: Home Plate Double Plays

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This Date In Yankee History: April 29, 1933 With the sun starting to set on the final Saturday in April 1933, the Yankees seemed poised to drop a second straight game to the Washing Senators. The deficit was 6-2 heading into the bottom of the 9th, but as they often did, the Yankees began to […]

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Penny for Your Thoughts: Greetings From Yankee Stadium

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Before the internet, postcards were the easiest way for people to send images around the world. In many ways, they were the precursor to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. It’s easy to see how the typical “Greetings from…” postcard message has evolved into the instant status updates that fly around cyber space. Another […]

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Hail to the Chiefs: Yankees Lean Left When It Comes to Championships

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on April 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »

This afternoon, the remaining members of the Yankees 2009 World Series Championship team will have the honor of meeting President Barack Obama at the White House. For the core four Yankees (Jeter, Posada, Rivera and Pettitte), this will be the third sitting President with whom they have visited to celebrate a championship (Bill Clinton three […]

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Best Yankee Manager of All-Time: Stengel or McCarthy?

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Who is the greatest Yankee manager of all time? The list of candidates is very impressive: Miller Huggins, Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, Joe Torre. According to Chris Jaffe, author of the soon to be released “Evaluating Baseball’s Managers”, McCarthy wins hands down. In an interview over at Bronx Banter, Jaffe addresses the relative […]

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Now Pitching…Ron Davis

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Uncategorized, Yankee History, Yankees on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last night, Ike Davis made his major league debut with the New York Mets. He is the son of former major league pitcher Ron Davis, who had a 10-year major league career that included parts of 4 seasons with the Yankees. Called up to the Yankees in 1978, Davis would emerge as one of the […]

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No Hitter History

Posted in Baseball History, MLB on April 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

By no-hitting the Atlanta Braves on Saturday, Ubaldo Jimenez became the first Rockies pitcher to accomplish the feat. Only three teams in major league baseball have never had a no-hitter: the Mets, Padres and Rays. On the other end of the spectrum, the Braves (Atlanta, Milwaukee and Boston) have no been no-hit 17 times, tying […]

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Baseball Needs to Abolish the Draft, For Jackie’s Sake

Posted in Baseball History, MLB on April 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Every Jackie Robinson Day brings about a reexamination of the diminishing number of black America players in major league baseball. Unfortunately, some misguidedly present the issue as a residue of racism. We’ve seen Gary Sheffield and Torri Hunter both imply that baseball teams are willfully using Latin players to phase out the black American athlete. […]

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