The voice of the Indians for as long as I can remember. The obit in this morning’s Times was all about his sadly abbreviated playing career, but didn’t mention his thirty-plus years as a broadcaster. My earliest baseball memories were of him on the radio, doing play-by-play for teams that were going nowhere fast. I [...]
Here’s a mash-up of a couple of sports articles that were in the paper this morning. Michael Phelps, in an almost scripted move, shatters eight world records and wins eight gold medals in the Olympics. Other world records — the men’s 100 meters for example — are falling like rain. Dara Torres, age 41, misses [...]
As a parting gesture to Manny Ramirez, here’s his famous “high five.” Catches the ball up against the fence, high-fives a fan in the stands, then pivots and throws a runner out. Does everything but put mustard on the guy’s hot dog and boy am I glad to see him off to the National League.
This year’s All-Star Game is being played at Yankee Stadium here in New York, in tribute and farewell to a great park, and the park that hosted the very first such game in 1939.
Just two players from the rosters at that game are still living. This morning’s Times has a nice feature on them. [...]
Cleveland Love has a gripping account of the infamous ten-cent beer night riot, which happened at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium 34 years ago. If you’re not familiar with this little bit of sports history, you should be. Remember it next time you wonder why there are restrictions on alcohol sales at the ballpark.
Just one [...]
When I first moved to New York City back in 1979, I was stunned to discover that I lived in a city with a winning baseball team. The guy that really stuck out for me on the Yankees was Rich Gossage, their closer. I remember hearing Phil Rizzuto describing how Gossage had just retired something like 28 consecutive batters — the equivalent of a perfect game — over several appearances.
To paraphrase the title of a famous Broadway musical. I was not pleased when the Yankees got bounced from the playoffs, but since I grew up in Cleveland I could still root for the Indians, right? And they did thoroughly outplay the Yankees after all.
When the Indians went up three games to one, I [...]
The Bergen Record reports George Steinbrenner saying that Torre won’t be back next year if the Yankees don’t win this series. Meanwhile, it looks as though the road to the World Series is going to run through Boston, which is up 9-0 over the Angels in the eighth.
Back to Steinbrenner. He’s also quoted as [...]
As the late, great Scooter would have said, “holy cow!” A monster pitching matchup tonight. A few random thoughts:
Lofton is having a great series, but twice tonight he broke one of the cardinal rules, never make the first or last out at third base.
Quote of the day from Carmona: “I’m not intimidated by the Yankees, [...]
Where does this game show up when the Phillies game goes overtime?
Anyway, a great pitching matchup today. Wang has been by far the most reliable Yankee starter this year, and Sabathia is a Cy Young contender as well. The question in New York is, how is the Yanks’ lefty-heavy lineup going to fare against Sabathia, who has made left-handed hitters his bitches this year?
We’re still involved in some delicate negotiations, but Anthony Cartouche and I are discussing a point-counterpoint liveblogging of the Yankees/Indians playoffs (or, Indians,Yankees (or Indians/Minions-Of-Satan) depending on your point of view).
Go to the jump for a poll!
It’s a go.
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