Tag Archives: Tino Martinez

Coming up Sixes

Today, August 23, 2014, marks the 66th birthday of DH (that’s also Designated Hebrew) Ron Blomberg. Happy Birthday, Ron! This is also the day Joe Torre’s (right: here pictured closer to 1966) number 6 was retired by the New York … Continue reading

Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Stadiums, Yankees | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hope Springs Anew…We Hope

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

Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Yankees | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment