The Four Colors of Babe Ruth

The Four Colors of Babe Ruth

BY MICHAEL OSACKY New York is the home of many great sportsโ€™ franchises both past and present. Whether you are eating a sandwich at the Carnegie Deli or watching a play on Broadway, the person next to you is always willing to talk about the hometown team. Many great Hall of Famers called New York […]

Babe Heads Home

Babe Heads Home

Internet offers once rare opportunity to see Babe Ruth in feature film just before he became a national hero. Best part: the movie was made locally at Ruth’s old Haverstraw stomping grounds BY JOHN MIRABELLA Special to the Rockland County Times Growing up in Haverstraw, N.Y. I, in fact we, as a town, had heard […]

Spring is in the Air and so is Americaโ€™s Pastime

Spring is in the Air and so is Americaโ€™s Pastime

Spring is in the Air and so is Americaโ€™s Pastime Originally published April 11, 2012; updated each season Rockland County Times Staff Editorial The 2015 baseball season is just getting started and it seems that every year on Opening Day thereโ€™s a special feeling in the air. Itโ€™s not like any sport or game. Thereโ€™s […]