BY MICHAEL OSACKY New York is the home of many great sports’ 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 […]
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) has made it so that for the first time since 1996, the eighth time in baseball hall of fame history, not a single player received the percentage necessary to be inducted to the hall of fame. Created in 1936, the standards for induction have remained very high. Major […]
BY MARC MATURO Rockland County Times’ sports reporter Marc A. Maturo is a lifetime honorary member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He was the Mets beat writer for the Gannett Westchester Newspapers from 1978-1985, and every year continues to write in the name of Pete Rose on his Hall of Fame ballot. At […]