Paul O’Neill holds a special place in the hearts of Yankees fans. Many years ago, when O’Neill was still active, my nephew, a die-hard Yankees fan who writes a blog on the team, told me something which I found incredible at the time. He said that the Yankees would honor O’Neill by giving him space ...
“To Johnny Bench-A Hall of Famer for sure”! Ted Williams wrote that on a baseball for Johnny Bench during spring training in 1968, and the prediction came to fruition a little over two decades later. Johnny Bench is considered by many to be the greatest catcher of all time. Johnny Bench played his whole seventeen ...
Do you remember where you were on the afternoon of August 16, 1977? I do. I was lying on the couch in my parents’ house watching a rerun of Gilligan’s Island on the superstation, WTCG. (This was about a month before Ted Turner got the rights to TBS so that his planned superstation would rhyme ...
Reggie Jackson cemented his legacy as a World Series legend on the night of Oct. 18, 1977, at Yankee Stadium. Jackson was in his first season as a New York Yankee and it had been a controversial season for the slugger, signed in the first winter of full scale free agency by the Yankees after ...
Although he never won a home run or runs batted in title, there is little else that George Brett did not accomplish for the Kansas City Royals on his way to the Hall of Fame. George Brett won three batting titles, becoming the only man to ever win one in three different decades. George Brett ...
Frank Graham, Tom Meany, David Halberstam, Glenn Stout, Buster Olney, Tom Molito, Jane Leavy and Marty Appel have all written excellent books about the New York Yankees, but Marty Appel has created a new benchmark with his new book, Pinstripe Empire. Appel has become every young fan’s father and every older fan’s younger brother. Pinstripe ...
