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Are you a Boston Red Sox fan that, in the darkest corner of your self, ever roots for…the Yankees? No? Oh, really?
Ian Kennedy, Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander
One of the true surprises, if not shocks, of 2011 is the success of Yankees castoff Ian Kennedy (21-4). His earned-run average is something like 2.88 and he has nearly 200 strikeouts. As the Yankees were developing Phil Hughes, Ian … Continue reading
Jorge Posada Redeemed
Who knew back in May it would be Jorge Posada to deliver the hit to propel the New York Yankees to the Eastern Division title? Pinch hitting for phenom Jesus Montero, who ultimately may take the veteran’s position as the … Continue reading
All Across the Telegraph His Name It Did Resound
Mariano Rivera mowed down the Minnesota Twins in the ninth inning of a close game, during the heat of a pennant race, thereby becoming the all-time leader in saves in baseball history. He did it at Yankee Stadium and made … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Arizona Diamondbacks, Bob Feller, Boston Red Sox, Jackie Robinson, John Wettland, Literature, Marco Scutaro, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pedro Martinez, Sachin Tendulkar, Sandy Koufax, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Ted Williams
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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
Two Big Hotstove League Dates in January 2012
January 2012 has two dates of especial revolutionary significance for all our devoted followers. January 5 is the ninety-second anniversary of the sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. It was the birth … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Babe Ruth, Boston Red Sox, Literature, New York Yankees
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Congratulations to Mariano Rivera
Under a Yeatsean full moon, beneath the Rabbit On The Moon (as I have been taught), in Seattle, a franchise against which he first revealed his greatness on a post-Yom Kippur night in October 1995, Mariano Rivera scored the six-hundredth … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged A. J. Burnett, Brian Robertson, Ichiro Suzuki, Literature, Mariano Rivera, Rafael Soriano, Russell Martin
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Lee Smith: Hall of Fame Candidate
One potential Hall of Famer I (Evander the blogger) might have included on my list of “the neglected” is Lee Smith. If readers excuse the pun (What pun?), Smith has a couple of strikes against him. One, he is a … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Lee Smith, Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman
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Mariano Rivera Knocking on the Door
Mariano Rivera notched career save 595 last night in super-dramatic fashion at Fenway Park. Seven more and he surpasses Trevor Hoffman, the all-time leader in saves. I (Evander, and Martin has publicly joined in this sentiment) can truly say I … Continue reading
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Tagged Fenway Park, Mariano Rivera, Seattle Mariners, Trevor Hoffman
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Alex Rodriguez, “You Done It Again!”
The Los Angeles Times and other sources report that Yankees superstar-slugger Alex Rodriguez is implicated in high-stakes poker games. In other words: Gamblers. Gambling is the one unforgivable sin in Major League Baseball. Pete Rose has been banned for life … Continue reading
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