Tag Archives: Yogi Berra

Great Stadiums (cont’d)

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Dharamshala this is not. (That blog was posted not only on Shakespeare’s birth and death day, I believe it was posted on the ninetieth anniversary of the opening of Yankee Stadium.) But the original Yankee Stadium was (James Hilton’s) Shangri-La … Continue reading →

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Farewell, Moose Skowron

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

The baseball firmament lost one of its all-time World Series stars. Bill “Moose” Skowron, a fixture at Yankees Oldtimers’ Day for decades following his career, died of congestive heart failure and cancer. Although he made the final out in the … Continue reading →

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Gary Carter, Whitney Houston, Many Events

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

The past several days have witnessed a convergence of many events, unrelated perhaps, but like all things juxtaposed by fate, each gives to the other a different and new meaning. There were the untimely deaths of only the third New … Continue reading →

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Good-bye Jorge Posada

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Yankees catcher of seventeen seasons, Jorge Posada, hung up his professional-baseball shoes yesterday, a month after Christmas Eve. I (Evander) had mixed feelings about him. I admired his strength in dealing with his son’s cranial development and the boy’s many … Continue reading →

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Baseball Nostalgia

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

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 →

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Congratulations Derek Jeter on 3,000 Hits

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

There have been 17,000 men in the big leagues, with literally hundreds of millions sharing this fantasy. Twenty-seven out of the seventeen-grand have amassed 3,000 hits. Until today. In ultra-dramatic fashion, with a mighty home run, Derek Jeter became ballplayer … Continue reading →

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Collecta-Bull

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

Maybe you are like me. (Accusative? Like I? Nah.) Every year, gotta have it. Went out and bought Sporting News Baseball 2011, which for decades was known as Street and Smith’s Baseball Yearbook, along with Who’s Who in Baseball 2011. My Who’s Who’s go … Continue reading →

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