My parents moved to Brooklyn in 1955 when I was almost two years old, and by the time I was four, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had played their last home games in the five boroughs. Until Casey Stengel and the Mets arrived in 1962, the only baseball team in town was the Read More
“Spanked!” screams the Post’s front cover this morning, although it’s not exactly true. Pedro Martinez gave up two homers in a little over six innings last night, and most of the sportswriters praise the 37-year old–who once called the Yankees his “daddy”–for a gutty performance. “[T]he Bombers didn’t exactly reassert their paternity with an exclamation Read More
The Yankees finally closed out the Angels last night, so a lot of this morning’s stories lead with the champagne-soaked locker room. It’s the first time the Yankees have made the World Series in a while, and everyone seems to be missing George Steinbrenner, because all the papers give us a report on Hal Steinbrenner, Read More
No one is very happy with Joe Girardi this morning, after his eighth pitching change backfired in the eleventh inning last night. In the Post, Mike Vaccaro brings in almost as many metaphors as Girardi had pitchers: the Yankees’ manager is a kid opening Christmas presents, then he’s a Little League manager, then a Read More
Every now and then, there is a moment in a baseball game when there is such a display of incompetence from one player, say—a pitcher walks a guy, beans the next guy, throws a couple of wild pitches, lets one loose behind batter, maybe beans another guy—and then he finally, finally gets it together and, Read More
After last night’s 12-inning, extra-season game wrapped up the regular season and settled the last playoff spot–and also reminded Mike Lupica why he watches baseball–the playoffs officially start tonight for the Yankees. Having missed the playoffs last year, expectations are tempered. ““Par here is making it to the World Series,” Reggie Jackson told Read More
Far too often, the sports pages of most daily newspapers read like crime blotters, with reports of athletes behaving badly overshadowing triumphs and championships. Drug use, psychotic outbursts and even violent crime have cause more than a few fans to wonder what happened to the idea of athletes as role models.
And then there’s Derek Read More
Daily News: Wow. It looks like the News got its hands on Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts’ long anticipated book about Alex Rodriguez. You’ll remember Ms. Roberts as the reporter who broke the story in February that a few years ago, in an anonymous, voluntary test, Mr. Rodriguez had “tested positive for two anabolic steroids” Read More
First, a little bit of business! You can now find a page of nothing but Wood War on the Observer web site! Bookmark this special Wood War Page link.
New York Post: The first great big summer blockbuster is here! And though this morning is a little springy for it, Lou Lumenick was getting Read More
