With 2019 just around the corner, Cooperstown is preparing for another historic summer. And the latest candidates for induction will soon learn if they are headed to the Hall of Fame. Six former big league[…]
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Monday Mets: Trying To Turn Next Year Into Next Year
“Wait ’til next year.” For Brooklyn Dodgers fans, the uttering of this phrase was an annual ritual. While it would often take place near the end of the regular season, there were plenty of times[…]
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Foley’s Offers The Tracy Ringolsby Burger in Honor of Longtime Baseball Writer
In honor of Hall of Fame writer Tracy Ringolsby (@TracyRingolsby), Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant (18 W. 33rd St.), has announced the “Tracy Ringolsby Burger” as its stuffed burger of the week. Tracy Ringolsby has been writing[…]
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Rivera, Pettitte Among Hall Ballot Newcomers
The BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot was announced today, with the electorate set to select from among 15 returners and 20 newcomers for the 2019 class. Several of those on their first ballot have New[…]
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Andujar Wasn’t Even The Yankees Best Rookie
When Shohei Ohtani was selected as the American League Rookie of the Year, there was an uproar among Yankee fans who believed Miguel Andujar deserved the award. The crux of the argument was Andujar was[…]
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Jackie Robinson Foundation Announces Jackie Robinson Centennial Celebration in 2019
The http://www.jackierobinson.org/Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) will commemorate the one hundredth birthday of its namesake with a year-long schedule of events in 2019 that will benefit the organization’s scholarship and education programs as well as the future Jackie[…]
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Ruth 1924 Home Run Bat To Auction
In 1924 Babe Ruth hit his first home run of the season off a pitch thrown by Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson. That Home Run Bat was signed at the end of the game[…]
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Foley’s Offers ‘The Jay Horwitz’ Burger For Longtime NY Mets PR Man
In honor of Jay Horwitz, the Vice President of Alumni Relations and Team Historian for the New York Mets, Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant (18 W. 33rd St.), has announced the “Jay Horwitz Burger” as[…]
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Monday Mets: The Perfect GM
Amongst the litany of baseball’s unwritten rules is one that suggests that major team announcements should not be made during the World Series by teams other than those who are actually in the World Series.[…]
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Yankees Need A New Shortstop
The 2018 season was the best year of Didi Gregorius‘ seven year Major League career. With the year he was having coupled with the rookie campaigns of Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar, the Yankees did[…]
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