Pete Stands Alone with 53 Home Runs as a Rookie

Pete Stands Alone with 53 Home Runs as a Rookie

HR Record for Alonso But Is Callaway Going, Going…? By Joe Rini And yet… Pete Alonso capped off a historic season by hitting a rookie record 53rd home run in Game 161 in Saturday’s 3-0 shutout over the playoff bound Braves. Three days earlier, Jacob deGrom staked his claim to back to back Cy Young […]

County Executive’s Corner: “One Game at a Time”

County Executive’s Corner: “One Game at a Time”

By County Executive Ed Day  I remember watching the Yankees play the Pirates in the 1960 World Series when I was growing up in Brooklyn. By all rights, the Yankees should have won that series. They outscored the Pirates 55-27 in the Series, out hit them 91-60, even got two complete-game shutouts from Whitey Ford […]

Woes and ‘Stros Facing Mets This Week

Triple-A Affiliate to Las Vegas? Want to Bet? BY JOE RINI A sinking post All-Star game stretch, the early curtailment of Johan Santana’s season, the Houston Astros final trip to New York as a National League team, and the possibility that Triple-A farmhands could get married by Elvis Presley impersonators are among the swirling story […]

Stony Point 12-Year-Old All-Stars Bow Out in the Eastern Regional

Report from http://stonypointll.org/ Stony Point kept its fantastic performance in Little League this season, as the 12-year-old All-Stars again advanced the regional round of the Little League World Series in Bristol, CT. The results and highlights from the games are listed below. First game: New Jersey-4 New York-2 Stephen Greeley pitched 3 2/3 with 6 […]

Hornets finish AAU season at 25-5

Hornets finish AAU season at 25-5

The 6th grade boys team of the Hudson River Hornets AAU basketball club finished the 2012 spring season with a 25-5 record that included four tournament championships and a 18-game win streak. The Hornets captured the championships of the Dowd Memorial Tournament in Central Valley, N.Y., the Miranda Memorial Tournament in Suffern, N.Y., the Crossroads […]