Published: May 19, 2011
Forget for the moment what is going on with the New York Yankees on the field. A three-game sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox this past weekend, and their continued failure to drive in runs, does not solve an immediate problem that started with the entire Jorge Posada escapade. The Yankees are [...]
Published: April 18, 2011
Howie Karpin is a fixture at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field. The Bronx native and Riverdale resident is an official scorer for Major League Baseball, and for the past 30 years has covered the World Series and Stanley Cup Finals as well as being an accomplished radio sports reporter. His passion is baseball, reporting games [...]
Published: February 5, 2011
Andy Pettitte made it official Friday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. “My heart’s not where it needs to be,” he said with his wife Laura at his side when he met the media. Retiring from the game after 16 years is not easy to do, 13 of those years pitching for the New York Yankees. But [...]
Published: January 29, 2011
Promoters Bob Arum and Don King have not joined forces in five years and Wednesday afternoon in New York City they definitely made an impact in the boxing world announcing the first major pay-per-view boxing event of the year. However it wasn’t the often bitter rivals who stole the show at BB Kings Club & [...]
Published: October 28, 2010
Back in May, outside Gate 4 at Yankee Stadium, where members of the media enter and leave, Bill Shannon was observing a sign situated at Babe Ruth Plaza. The longtime official scorer employed by Major League Baseball who sits up in the press box would question, “Look carefully. What is wrong with the spelling here…?” [...]
Published: October 15, 2010
There is one difference this October for the New York Yankees as they prepare for game one in the best of seven American League Championship Series Friday evening at Texas. They don’t have home field advantage but the first three starters in the pitching rotation may be better than the three from championship team number [...]
Published: October 6, 2010
Goodbye Omar Minaya. You should have been out of here a long time ago for making the New York Mets the “Mess” they are, now something that a new general manager will inherit. As for Jerry Manuel, nice guy who was never the right fit for this team calling decisions in the dugout. What took [...]
Published: September 9, 2010
BRONX, NY – One swing of the bat from Nick Swisher in the bottom of the ninth inning, a two-run blast to the left field bullpen prevented the Baltimore Orioles from sweeping a three game series from the New York Yankees in the Bronx It would have been the first sweep since June 1986 for [...]
Published: August 8, 2010
YANKEE STADIUM – Ramiro Pena has been flying under the radar for most of this 2010 season. The young utility player has been able to provide key hits for New York whenever they needed it, and in some of the most important games of the season. Pena, who is so vital on the Yankees bench, [...]
Published: July 12, 2010
The voice of Yankee Stadium will speak no more. Millions of attendees of sporting events at Yankee Stadium for more than 50 years will miss hearing the stentorian tones of the iconic public address announcer. Bob Sheppard, the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium for six decades died at his home in Baldwin, New York [...]