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It Ain’t Over: Yogi Berra Passes, but Legacy Lives On

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on September 23, 2015 | 1 Comment »

You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.” – Yogi Berra It ain’t over. Mourning is the first impulse after a beloved person like Yogi Berra dies, but for those who leave behind such an enduring legacy, the end is really much closer to the beginning. Yogi Berra transcended […]

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Trading Places: Would Yankees Be Better Off with Cano and Granderson Instead of Ellsbury and Beltran?

Posted in Baseball, Free Agents, MLB, Robinson Cano, Roster Analysis, Yankees on September 16, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Is December 6, 2013 a day that will live in baseball infamy for the Yankees? On that date, and within 72 hours of signing Jacoby Ellsbury to a seven-year deal, the Bronx Bombers said goodbye to Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson and then welcomed Carlos Beltran into the fold. The transformation may have been quick, but the […]

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Breaking Bad: Yankees Contribute to Own Misfortune as Teixeira’s Season Ends

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Roster Analysis, Yankees on September 12, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Mark Teixeira is done for the season. As the Bronx Bombers head down the stretch, and hopefully into the playoffs, they’ll be without their slugging first baseman, who was finally diagnosed with a fracture in his right leg. The loss of Teixeira is certainly a tough break, but with resolution coming four weeks after he initially […]

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Yankees Offense Slowed by Need for Speed

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on September 1, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Tommy Lasorda once quipped that if Bruce Benedict had a race with a pregnant woman, he’d come in third. If the now 60-year old former Braves catcher challenged the current Yankees’ lineup to a race instead, he might have better luck. The Yankees currently rank near the bottom of the American League in several base […]

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Split Decision Leads to Progress for Nathan Eovaldi

Posted in Baseball, MLB, PitchFX, Statistical Analysis, Yankees on August 20, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Nathan Eovaldi started the season as the Yankees’ pet project, but, in the early going, there was very little progress to report…and that was before the right hander was rocked for eight first inning runs during a June outing in Miami. Thankfully, the Bronx Bombers didn’t get frustrated and cut bait on the former Marlin […]

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No Choke! Yankees Dwindling Division Lead Could Make History, but Reflects More on Front Office than Players

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on August 11, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The Yankees are no strangers to building big division leads. What they aren’t accustomed to is blowing them. Since 1901, the Bronx Bombers have taken a lead of at least 6 ½ games in 38 different seasons, not including this one, and each time they ended up in first place. This year, however, history may […]

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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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