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Tag Archives: Yankee Stadium
A Half-century Later: Mickey Mantle Blast
May 22, 1963, Yankee Stadium (the original), Mickey Mantle almost bombs a home run out of the park. Mantle considered this the hardest ball he ever hit. Estimates of a 600-foot blast had the Stadium facade not got in the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Miscellaneous, Yankees
Tagged Mel Allen, Mickey Mantle, Yankee Stadium
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Unusual Opening Day for Yankees and Movie with the Literal Hollywood Ending
Yesterday, also Good Friday for the Western Church and the start of Passover at sundown for all Jews, happened to be Opening Day for the New York Yankees—first pitch after 3 p.m. It wound up the first Opening Day meltdown … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Miscellaneous, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Podcasts, Yankees
Tagged Al Campanis, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carl Hubbell, Joe Girardi, Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, New York Giants, Nick Swisher, San Francisco Giants, Wild Card, Yankee Stadium
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Baseball and Jazz
According to the Boston Globe, pitcher Ben Henderson may be the first individual to have used the word jazz. An April 2, 1912, headline says so. Different dictionaries, such as Webster’s Third and The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, furnish alternate … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Miscellaneous, Right Off the Bat Book
Tagged Buck O'Neil, C. I. Taylor, Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson, James "Cool Papa" Bell, Josh Gibson, Literature, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Newt Allen, Oscar Charleston, Ray Dandridge, Satchel Paige, Turkey Stearnes, Willie Foster, Willie Wells, Yankee Stadium
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Evander (Not Holyfield) Meets and Greets Baseball Players and Cricket Fans
The scene today was Fairfield, New Jersey, the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Route 46 East. I arrived with my pre-1974 Yankee Stadium seat to add some autographs and to promote Right Off the Bat. The Crowne Plaza was hosting a … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, England, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Al Kaline, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Turley, Casey Stengel, Darryl Strawberry, Evander Holyfield, Game of the Week, Hector Lopez, Jim Bouton, Jim Leyrtiz, John Wettland, Ken Griffey Sr., Literature, Los Angeles Dodgers, Luis Arroyo, National Baseball Hall of Fame, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Ralph Terry, Reggie Jackson, Rocky Colavito, Tony Kubek, Whitey Ford, Yankee Stadium
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They’d Name a Candy Bar after Me
When Reggie Jackson of the Baltimore Orioles boasted ca. 1976 that “They’d name a candy bar after me if I played in New York” he wasn’t kidding. I (Evander) remember a 1977 Yankee Stadium opening-day field littered with thousands of … Continue reading
Yankees Universe Parking Fiasco (World Series to Begin)
Is the big news in New York that the World Series, pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the Texas Rangers, begins tomorrow? It may be the news of the world, but not in Yankees Universe. Yankees Universe has a messy … Continue reading
A. J. Burnett Tries to Save Yankees Season
I (Evander) hope the message tonight from Detroit is not “Yanqui Go Home!” The Yankees’s season rests on the shoulders and strong right arm of A. J. Burnett. The offense has sputtered. Those home runs the Yankees hit at their … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged A. J. Burnett, Alex Rodriguez, Allie Reynolds, Andy Pettitte, Catfish Hunter, Comerica Park, David Wells, Detroit Tigers, Ed Figueora, Eddie Lopat, El Duque, Joe DiMaggio, Mark Teixeira, Mike Torrez, New York Yankees, Roger Clemens, Ron Guidry, Vic Raschi, Whitey Ford, Yankee Stadium
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Baseball Nostalgia
If ever there were a sport to indulge a sense of nostalgia, baseball is it. (Cricket fans: I, Evander, can hear you: What about us? It’s the same impulse of course.) I happen to have a seat bottom from the … Continue reading
“Willie, Mickey, and the Duke” (and Probably in that Order)
The New York Times obituary portrays a self-lacerating Duke Snider. I had no idea. Snider’s career (1947–64) overlapped my early following baseball only on the late side. I therefore had a slight connection to this member of the New York City … Continue reading
