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It Happens Every Spring: A Retrospective Rundown of Yankees Spring Training

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Spring Training, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on March 1, 2021 | 3 Comments »

(This updated post was originally published on February 16, 2011, and has since been updated before each season) For over 25 years, Tampa has been the Yankees’ spring training home, but it still seems like just yesterday when the team’s camp was located down the coast in Ft. Lauderdale. I am sure most fans who […]

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Honor in Pinstripes: Yankees’ History of Tribute by Uniform (Updated)

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Yankee History on March 28, 2019 | 3 Comments »

(Updated as of March 28, 2019) Since the tragic death of Indians’ shortstop Ray Chapman, who was beaned in the head by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays, the Yankees have used their uniform as a means of offering tribute to the passing of legendary figures or commemorating tragic events. Below is a list of such honors:

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Jim Palmer Strikes Out at Critics; Did Hall of Famer Make an Art of Stranding Runners?

Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Baseball History, MLB on January 30, 2017 | 1 Comment »

Is Jim Palmer the most overrated pitcher of all time? Disciples of defense independent pitching stats (DIPS) have often pointed to the right hander’s mediocre strikeout rate and extraordinary success on balls in play to support that claim, and the slight hasn’t gone unnoticed by Palmer. During a recent roundtable discussion convened by ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick, […]

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Misery Loves Company: World Series Beckons Long Suffering Franchises

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Post Season on October 16, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Baseball’s final four is set, and it features a quartet with one of the longest cumulative championship droughts in LCS history. So, forget the recent talk of dynasties and title defenses. When the champagne flows after this year’s World Series, it will quench the thirst of a long-suffering fan base. Yearly Cumulative World Series Drought […]

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Home Runs Trump Small Ball In Postseason Play

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, Statistical Analysis on October 13, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The MLB postseason had a power surge on Monday. Yesterday’s four division series games featured a long ball barrage that set a myriad of records, including the most home runs and runs scored in a single day of postseason play. Who said the playoffs were all about small ball? To be fair, before Monday’s outburst, both […]

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Updated: Solving Another Baseball “Movie Mystery”: What Game Did Harold Lloyd Film for his 1928 Classic “Speedy”?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Movies, Nostalgia, Yankee Stadium, Yankees, tagged , , , on August 10, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Thanks to the great work of Tom Shieber, a more definitive date has been determined for Babe Ruth’s home run in the classic film Speedy (see here for video). In a post over four years ago, I declared the mystery solved, having deduced that Harold Lloyd filmed Babe Ruth’s 54th home run in the second game of a double header […]

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Is Hall of Fame Headed for a Party of Five?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Hall of Fame, MLB, Yankees on December 31, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Over the past few years, Hall of Fame voters have become steroid addled. By refusing to elect candidates with links to PEDs, regardless of substantiation, voters have allowed each subsequent year’s ballot to become increasingly crowded. As a result, some electors have been forced to consider game theory as much as the individual merits of each player when casting their […]

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