Category Archives: Yankees

Ruth and Gehrig Photo Sells for 33 Grand

Posted on March 23, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

The discovery of footage of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and the recent sale of a still photograph of the period for a fortune, call to mind the equally valuable photograph we have in Right Off the Bat of Dr. … Continue reading →

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Erin Go Bragh

Posted on March 22, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

It’s the second full day of spring and it snowed in the Bronx yesterday, huge flakes. The good news is it didn’t snow down here at World Cricket Central in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, which is obviously south of the snow … Continue reading →

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Beibu Rusu! Our Hearts Go out to Japan

Posted on March 14, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Beibu Rusu is the Japanese form of “Babe Ruth”. The Japanese also have the sports-word pepitone. It’s a noun meaning “goof-off,” and this beau mot comes from The Chrysanthemum and the Bat by Robert Whiting. We’ve had a lot of … Continue reading →

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Hope Springs Anew…We Hope

Posted on February 23, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

This has been one of those old-fashioned New York City winters, the bleeding kind that Paul Simon wrote about in “The Boxer,” which seem to have departed with the 1970s. Those were winters before el Niño and la Niña, when … Continue reading →

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