In This League, the Yankees are the Runts

Brooklyn Cyclones general manager Steve Cohen surveyed his team’s sold-out ballpark from the terrace above home plate during the season opener Tuesday night with a look of general satisfaction on his face.

“It’s great, fantastic,” Cohen said about the day. “We’ve got a couple of things we’ve got to fix. Little operational Read More

Rudy Was Right (About Baseball)

All right, I admit it: I was wrong about the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Staten Island Yankees. I was wrong to insist that New Yorkers would never turn out to see minor leaguers-and entry-level minor leaguers at that. Isn’t this a city, I argued, that demands only the best? Isn’t this the major-league city of Read More