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Red Sox Stumble in Title Defense; Can They Recover Like 1953 Yankees?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Red Sox, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on May 28, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Defending a World Series title isn’t always easy. The 2014 Boston Red Sox can attest. Last year’s World Series victors just completed a 10-game skid, becoming only the fifth defending champion to post a double-digit losing streak. Can they recover in their title defense? The track record of teams with such a long stretch of […]

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Yankees Honor Rivera and Pettitte, but Is Farewell to Arms Also Goodbye to the Future?

Posted in Baseball, Hal Steinbrenner, Mariano Rivera, MLB, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on September 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees summoned the ghosts of recent glory to honor Mariano Rivera, but there wasn’t enough magic from the past to prevent the team from being haunted by its present. In an emotional pre-game ceremony, a litany of modern pinstriped legends joined a sellout crowd to say goodbye and give thanks to Rivera. However, the […]

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Yankees Flying High Versus Blue Jays: Historical Look at Single Season Series Performances

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Statistical Analysis, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on August 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a choppy ride for the Yankees in 2013, but their slim playoff hopes have been kept afloat by a life raft: the Toronto Blue Jays. Many expected the Yankees and Blue Jays to battle for supremacy in the A.L. East, but instead, the Bronx Bombers have used Toronto to prop up their lagging […]

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Who’s Sorry Now? Apologies Excepted as Dodgers Return to the Bronx

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Don Mattingly, George M. Steinbrenner, Hal Steinbrenner, MLB, World Series, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on June 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) The last time the Los Angeles Dodgers visited Yankee Stadium, their road grays were soaked with champagne. After losing the first two games of the 1981 World Series, the Dodgers swept the next four, including the series finale in the Bronx. It was the end of an […]

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Smaller Crowds at Yankee Stadium Could Have Big Impact on Future Plans

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Business and Finance, Hal Steinbrenner, MLB, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on April 25, 2013 | 11 Comments »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” – Yogi Berra The turnstiles at Yankee Stadium have not been spinning as often this season. Through the first nine home games of the year, the average crowd in the Bronx has been 38,432, which compared to the same point […]

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The Hubbub Over StubHub

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankee Stadium, Yankees, tagged on December 11, 2012 | 4 Comments »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) Over the past few years, I’ve written extensively (here and here) about the precarious relationship between StubHub and Major League Baseball, particularly as it pertains to the cannibalization of primary market ticket sales. So, it wasn’t much of a surprise when the Yankees decided to opt out of MLB’s just-renewed deal with the […]

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Home Field Disadvantage: Fans Become the Focus as Yankees Limp to Detroit

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, MLB, Post Season, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on October 15, 2012 | 7 Comments »

The Yankees reward for having the best record in the American League was home field advantage throughout the playoffs. However, what was once a blessing, seems to have turned into a curse. With the team mired in an epic postseason slump, the (less than capacity) crowds at Yankee Stadium have alternated between passionless and merciless, […]

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