“With those who don’t give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize.  I do not resent them.  I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace.  But while the game is on I can’t think of anything to say to […]

“Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re trying to win a pennant” ~ Casey Stengel to a Yankee rookie On the evening following a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook New York City for 15 seconds the Yankees took on the Oakland “Kinda like San Francisco without the Grateful Dead” Athletics. The […]

“Honestly at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character.  I mean I wasn’t born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana” ~ Don MattinglyTonight the Yankees opened up a three-game series against the Los Angeles but not of Los Angeles really of Anaheim but when we say Anaheim people say”whaaaa?” Angels. […]

“You throw the ball.  You catch the ball.  You hit the ball.  Sometimes you win.  Sometimes you lose.  Sometimes it rains” ~ Bull Durham So after sitting out a two-hour rain delay the Yankees took the field shortly after 9 PM to face the Seattle “Sorry we brought our hippie raining leftist cappuccino swilling anti-capitalist […]

“So I’m ugly.  So what.  I never saw anyone hit with his face.” ~ Yogi Berra On Sunday afternoon the Yankees ended the first half of the season with the final game of a four-game series against the Tampa Bay “No Diablo” Rays.  The Yankees started CC Sabathia (13-4 2.72) and the Rays started James […]

“Well boys it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.” ~  Joe Schultz, manager of the Seattle Pilots, 1969. On Saturday I went to see the Yankees play interleague baseball against the Colorado “What else were we gonna call ourselves?  The Colorado move along nothing to see […]

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person.  Stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball” ~ Jim Murray Tonight the Yankee opened a three-game series against the team that knocked them […]

“What is surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.  There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman of his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagement’s of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s […]

“Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses are deadened.  Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of Summer and for the unchanging dreams” ~ Roger Kahn Today I went to see the Yankees play an afternoon matinee against division rivals the Toronto “We are Canadian, eh?” […]

“Thank god the Cubs didn’t sign me.  I’d have been a loser all my life” ~ Moose Skowron Today was May 1st, May Day.  And on this beautiful Sunday the Yankees finished off a three game series against the Toronto “What?  Yeah I know Shatner’s from Canada.  Want to make something of it” Blue Jays. […]