BY CHAYIM TAUBER This has not been an easy season for the New York Yankees. Injuries, slumps, and gradual loss of the 10 game lead once held in the American League East have made this season one of the more challenging ones the Yankees have endured in recent years. Still, despite all the turmoil and […]
BY JOE RINI Milestones for Dickey and Wright and Collins to Return in 2013 Although September was short on pennant race drama for the New York Mets, two players did scale team milestones during this last week of the 2012 season. David Wright became the Mets all-time hits leader and R.A. Dickey became the Mets […]
Chipper Jones Honored by Mets and “Mr. Shea Stadium” BY JOR RINI The dream of playing baseball for the hometown team is real for any Dad who has soft tossed a ball to his young son holding a plastic bat or 10-year old boy who’s homered in his backyard to win a World Series. In […]
By Joe Rini Chipper Jones Honored by Mets and “Mr. Shea Stadium” The dream of playing baseball for the hometown team is real for any dad who has soft tossed a ball to his young son holding a plastic bat or any 10-year old boy who’s homered in his backyard to win a World Series. […]
Rollin’ with the Boulders BY GEORGE J. DACRE I was among 3,650 fans who enjoyed the Rockland Boulders baseball team’s final game of the 2012 season on Labor Day. On Monday afternoon the Boulders defeated the American Association’s Lincoln Saltdogs 5 to 4 with Pat Moran picking up the win pitching well for six innings […]
Mets try to scratch back to .500 as they top division foes on road BY JOE RINI While recent Septembers for the New York Mets have been uneventful at best and cruel at their worst, late surges by the Mets in 1969 and 1973 propelled them to the World Series and a “miracle” World Series […]