New York Yankees Postgame Alert
October 11, 2009
N.Y. Yankees 4, Minnesota 1 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome N.Y. Yankees Record: (3-0) Minnesota Record: (0-3)
Winning pitcher - Andy Pettitte (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Carl Pavano (0-1)
SV - Mariano Rivera (1)
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 4, Hits: 7, Errors: 0 Minnesota Runs: 1, Hits: 7, Errors: 0
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Response to the article written by George Mole', "Save a Piece of Yankee History"
Dear Editor,
I would like to respond to the article written by George Mole', "Save a Piece of Yankee History,” published in the Norwood News on October 8th.
Mr. Mole' is absolutely correct in everything he stated in his wonderfully written article. Nothing defines the Bronx or the borough's success more than Yankee Stadium. Not only has Yankee Stadium been the heart and soul of the Bronx since 1923, but it has shared those values with all of America, and even the world.
This icon has meant more to people than just the greatest venue in sports. Why else would Popes hold mass and the memorial to 9/11 victims be held there?
The House That Ruth Built has been a great source of pride to the Bronx. To save Gate 2 will ensure that the horrendous mistakes of losing Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds will not be repeated. It will also give rise to great dreams of those playing at, visiting, and respecting Heritage Park, as well as be a solid tourist destination for tourists that visit from all around the world.
Speak up to your political leaders. You have a marvelous monument already standing. You don’t want to lose it. If you do, when people go to Heritage Park and ask why not one remnant of glorious Yankee Stadium is left standing, you will have yourselves and your leaders to blame. Yankee Stadium has given much joy and pride to the Bronx. The least we can all do is to save Gate 2. Yankee Stadium has earned it, and so has the Bronx!
-Michael Wagner
I would like to respond to the article written by George Mole', "Save a Piece of Yankee History,” published in the Norwood News on October 8th.
Mr. Mole' is absolutely correct in everything he stated in his wonderfully written article. Nothing defines the Bronx or the borough's success more than Yankee Stadium. Not only has Yankee Stadium been the heart and soul of the Bronx since 1923, but it has shared those values with all of America, and even the world.
This icon has meant more to people than just the greatest venue in sports. Why else would Popes hold mass and the memorial to 9/11 victims be held there?
The House That Ruth Built has been a great source of pride to the Bronx. To save Gate 2 will ensure that the horrendous mistakes of losing Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds will not be repeated. It will also give rise to great dreams of those playing at, visiting, and respecting Heritage Park, as well as be a solid tourist destination for tourists that visit from all around the world.
Speak up to your political leaders. You have a marvelous monument already standing. You don’t want to lose it. If you do, when people go to Heritage Park and ask why not one remnant of glorious Yankee Stadium is left standing, you will have yourselves and your leaders to blame. Yankee Stadium has given much joy and pride to the Bronx. The least we can all do is to save Gate 2. Yankee Stadium has earned it, and so has the Bronx!
-Michael Wagner
As Stadium Rises, Neighbors Wait for Replacement Parks
As Stadium Rises, Neighbors Wait for Replacement Parks
February 2, 2009
Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in Bronx Youth Heard, a publication of the Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative. It was written by Jose De Jesus, 18, a student at Cardinal Hayes High School.
Macombs Dam Park and most of Mullaly Park, are gone. In their place, stands the nearly completed Yankee Stadium. And although baseball fans are excited about the upcoming season, many Bronx residents wonder when the city will complete the new parks it promised to build in place of the ones it and the Yankees destroyed.
The Harlem River waterfront is one place the city plans to create new parkland. However, construction for the project — originally slated for completion in 2008 — was delayed due to the discovery of a number of oil drums buried under the construction site.
Though a New York Times story on June 25 indicated that the park would be completed in April, the project is now scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, according to Parks Department spokesperson Jesslyn Moser.
Helen Foster, the only Bronx member of the City Council to vote against the project, is critical of the Parks Department’s performance in finishing the replacement parks (there are eight total).
“Why can’t you build a park as fast as a stadium?” said a Foster spokesperson. Sentiments like this are echoed throughout the Highbridge community surrounding the stadium.
“I like the Yankees just as much as the next guy,” said Sebastian Bernard, a high school senior who lives four blocks away from the site of the new stadium. “But I didn’t want to lose the parks I grew up playing in just so they can get a new stadium.”
Despite the delays, the Harlem River Waterfront Park will bring many recreational opportunities to the community for the first time. ”The park will include 16 tennis courts (12 beneath a bubble during the colder months)… an outdoor classroom, a beach area, barbecue area, passive recreational space, scenic overlooks, and an esplanade to unite the site,” Moser wrote in an e-mail. “[Also] a concessionaire is being sought to operate/manage the bubbled tennis courts, [and there will be] an indoor/outdoor café, and an ice rink.”
Assuming there are no more delays, Bronx residents will have to wait at least another year to practice their backswings or grill burgers at the new park.
Meanwhile, construction for the new stadium is ahead of schedule, with the expected completion date being Feb. 4.
“How is it that they can build a stadium almost overnight, but they can’t finish the parks they promised us without huge delays?” says Blanca Morales, a 42-year-old mother of three who lives in the area. “When it’s something to bring in money from outside the Bronx, it gets completed in a heartbeat, but when it’s a park for the people who live and work in the Bronx, why are delays almost always expected?”
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February 2, 2009
Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in Bronx Youth Heard, a publication of the Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative. It was written by Jose De Jesus, 18, a student at Cardinal Hayes High School.
Macombs Dam Park and most of Mullaly Park, are gone. In their place, stands the nearly completed Yankee Stadium. And although baseball fans are excited about the upcoming season, many Bronx residents wonder when the city will complete the new parks it promised to build in place of the ones it and the Yankees destroyed.
The Harlem River waterfront is one place the city plans to create new parkland. However, construction for the project — originally slated for completion in 2008 — was delayed due to the discovery of a number of oil drums buried under the construction site.
Though a New York Times story on June 25 indicated that the park would be completed in April, the project is now scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, according to Parks Department spokesperson Jesslyn Moser.
Helen Foster, the only Bronx member of the City Council to vote against the project, is critical of the Parks Department’s performance in finishing the replacement parks (there are eight total).
“Why can’t you build a park as fast as a stadium?” said a Foster spokesperson. Sentiments like this are echoed throughout the Highbridge community surrounding the stadium.
“I like the Yankees just as much as the next guy,” said Sebastian Bernard, a high school senior who lives four blocks away from the site of the new stadium. “But I didn’t want to lose the parks I grew up playing in just so they can get a new stadium.”
Despite the delays, the Harlem River Waterfront Park will bring many recreational opportunities to the community for the first time. ”The park will include 16 tennis courts (12 beneath a bubble during the colder months)… an outdoor classroom, a beach area, barbecue area, passive recreational space, scenic overlooks, and an esplanade to unite the site,” Moser wrote in an e-mail. “[Also] a concessionaire is being sought to operate/manage the bubbled tennis courts, [and there will be] an indoor/outdoor café, and an ice rink.”
Assuming there are no more delays, Bronx residents will have to wait at least another year to practice their backswings or grill burgers at the new park.
Meanwhile, construction for the new stadium is ahead of schedule, with the expected completion date being Feb. 4.
“How is it that they can build a stadium almost overnight, but they can’t finish the parks they promised us without huge delays?” says Blanca Morales, a 42-year-old mother of three who lives in the area. “When it’s something to bring in money from outside the Bronx, it gets completed in a heartbeat, but when it’s a park for the people who live and work in the Bronx, why are delays almost always expected?”
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Politics and Parks Collide at Bronx Speak Up
Politics and Parks Collide at Bronx Speak Up
At the Bronx Parks Speak Up, Yuritt Zeron and Tonia Ann German of Rocking the Boat give a presentation on how their group removes toxins from river water using an oyster garden. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz)
At the Bronx Parks Speak Up, Yuritt Zeron and Tonia Ann German of Rocking the Boat give a presentation on how their group removes toxins from river water using an oyster garden. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz)
by RACHEL WALDHOLZNORWOOD NEWS
Bronx parks advocates, employees, and elected officials gathered last Saturday at Lehman College for the 15th Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up, which was highlighted by a heated discussion among City Council members about the Yankee Stadium replacement parks and the fate of parks maintenance in this year’s budget.
The event also offered workshops, presentations on green jobs and the relationship between health and environment in the Bronx. But the main event centered around a panel discussion on parks and politics featuring six of the borough’s nine council members, including James Vacca, Helen Diane Foster, Annabel Palma, Joel Rivera, Oliver Koppell, and Melissa Mark-Viverito. State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz moderated.
There was some disagreement on the future of the perennially underfunded parks maintenance budget. Rivera painted by far the rosiest picture, saying he supports a “one percent for parks” initiative, which would allocate one percent of the city budget for parks beautification and maintenance.
Koppell dismissed that as wishful thinking. “[I’m] not going to stand here to please the crowd and say we’re going to increase parks maintenance budget,” he said, adding that if the city can avoid significant cuts in the parks budget, “we’ll be lucky.”
But Vacca said the problem is bigger than this year’s budget woes. “The budget crisis is the newest pretense the city is using” to underfund parks, he said. The real issue is that the city sinks billions of dollars into park renovation and creation, he said, but then “we don’t safeguard those investments” by funding parks maintenance and programming.
The hot-button political issues came at the end, with Dinowitz saying the city “all too often treats parkland as real estate.” He singled out the Croton Filtration Plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park and the new Yankee Stadium being built on a public baseball field. (Dinowitz was a prime opponent of the filtration plant, but he voted for the alienation of Macombs Dam Park, paving the way for the new stadium.) Replacement fields can’t be built until the old stadium is completely razed, which the city says won’t happen until at least 2010.
Karen Argenti, a longtime parks advocate, pushed further. “I want to know when Yankee Stadium is coming down, and if it’s not tomorrow, why?” she said. “Why are you not standing up to the mayor? Tell him, ‘It has to come down.’”
Foster defended the Bronx delegation. “You’re looking at a body that does stand up to the mayor,” she said. “I’m the elected official who lives the closest. I hear the crack of the bat.” She said her first committee meeting, in April, will focus on when the old stadium is coming down.
Bronx Parks Commissioner Hector Aponte said the Yankees will leave the old stadium April 1, and after preliminary work, the actual structure will begin to come down in late summer or early fall. He predicted it will take at least a year to tear down the old stadium, ending in mid-2010, and that the ball fields slated to be built on the site should be finished by the fall of 2011.
Aponte added that the whole process was delayed because the Yankees had unexpectedly exercised a provision of their agreement with the city, which allowed them to extend their lease on the old stadium for up to two years.
Joyce Hogi, a neighborhood resident, activist, and vice president of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, said those timelines were nonsense.
“It’ll take six months just to get the scaffolding up,” she said.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Harvey Frommer on Sports - '27 World Champions
Harvey Frommer on Sports
NY Yankees '27 World Champions
A lot of hype and hoopla surrounds the 2009 World Series especially as it swirls around the Yankees of New York - - an odds on favorite to win it all.
Win or lose it - - the Yankees of 2009 are no way the powerhouse the Yankees of 1927 were.
What happened before the World Series of 1927 would provide a source of controversy through the ages. The Waner brothers, Lloyd, "Big Poison" and Paul, "Little Poison," sent up their baseball cards to Babe Ruth who was at ease in a manner of speaking in his room in a hotel in Pittsburgh.
"Why, they're just kids," he said, "if I was that little, I'd be afraid of getting hurt."
That was the first year the Waners played together in the Pirate outfield. "That was a great thrill for us," Paul recalled. "We even brought Mother and Dad and our sister to the World Series.
"We won before it even got started," Babe Ruth wrote later. "The first two games were scheduled for Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. Naturally we showed up a day early and worked out in the strange park."
The Pirates," Ruth recalled," had their workout just before we went out onto the field. We came out from the clubhouse. Most of the Pirates had dressed and were sitting in the stands to watch us go through practice."
Earl Combs hit a shot into the centerfield stands. Mark Koenig hit a ball off the right field wall and one off the left field barrier. Then it was Babe Ruth's turn.
"The first ball I hit over the roof of the right field grandstand," the Bammer said. "I put another one into the lower tier. Then I got hold of one and laid it into the centerfield bleachers."
"We really put on a show," Ruth said. "Lou and I banged ball after ball into the right field stands. Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri kept hammering balls into the left field seats."
All of the games of the 1927 World Series were scheduled for 1:30 P.M starts except for 2 P.M for a Sunday game. Prices for seats for all games were six dollars, five dollars, three dollars and one dollar. Four umpires were assigned.
GAME ONE
Outside of Forbes Field scalpers asked $25 a ticket, a price that was considered extreme gouging, which it was. The price for a World Series program featuring Miller Huggins and Pittsburgh manager Owen J. Bush on its cover, sold for 25 cents.
The pitching match up was Yankee right-handed ace Waite Hoyt against the big horse of the all right-handed Pirate staff, Ray Kremer, National League ERA leader who had won 19 of 27 decisions. The sloppy, herky-jerky game played in two hours and four minutes finally ended Yankees 5, Pirates 4.
Grantland Rice in the New York Herald-Tribune wrote: "It was scramble and rush and hullabaloo and stampede to look upon a gaudy spectacle which turned out to be one of the dullest games of the year. If Pittsburgh couldn't beat the Yankees today, it may be a tough job later on."
Babe Ruth shouted: "Well, it won't be long now boys. It won't be long now."
GAME II
Miller Huggins, a gambler, a hunch player, a manager with six starting pitchers available to him - tabbed George Pipgras, the big guy from Minnesota, as a surprise starter for the second game of the series Thursday, October 6th,
Still using the old, greasy glove, the one that had stood him in good stead in minor league stops at Atlanta, St. Paul, Charleston, and more, Pipgras took the mound against the Pirates.
Vic Aldridge, in his eighth major league season, a 15-game winner, took the mound for Pittsburgh.
Festive Forbes Field became boo city in the late innings. Jeers and catcalls rained down from unhappy Buc rooters. Others simply expressed their displeasure with the home team's ineffectiveness by exiting the ball park. The Bucs lost, 6-2.
"I was fast that day," Pipgras recalled. "I didn't throw but three curves. They kept coming up there looking for the curve but never got it."
It was called "The World's Dullest World Series after just two games!" in a New York Herald-Tribune headline.
GAME III
On Friday October 7, lines for bleacher seats were up and running at 5 A.M. - five hours before the gates of Yankee Stadium were scheduled to open.
There were 60,695 on hand, "the biggest money crowd in the history of the title series," in James R Harrison's phrase in The New York Times. There was also the biggest gate ever to that point in time for a World Series game - $209,665. Southpaw Herb Pennock, called "the aristocrat of baseball" by writer Will Wedge, was unbeaten in four World Series decisions.
The Yankees scored in the first inning off Buc right-hander, bespectacled Lee Meadows. Gehrig poked the ball to the running track in left center field scoring Combs and Koenig both of whom had singled.
The Squire Pennock set down Pittsburgh batter after batter. The Bucs were hitless through the seventh inning, an inning when the Yankees put the game away by scoring six times. The highlight of the Yankee big inning came when Mike Cvengros, a surname according to Grantland Rice "that you said with a sneeze," relieved Meadows.
A three run shot, Ruth's first home run of the world series, pushed the Yankee lead to 8-0. It triggered wild cheers for the Colossus of Clout as he made his way around the bases behind Combs and Koenig.
The screams of one fan captured the moment: "Take off those Pirates uniforms," he bellowed, "we know you're the St. Louis Browns." The Yankees surely manhandled the Bucs like they treated the Browns. Maybe Worse.
The 8-1 romp placed the Yankees one win away from becoming the first American League team to sweep a World Series.
Game IV
Saturday October 8th was damp, cloudy like the spirits of the Pirates. Rain in the morning would hold the announced Yankee Stadium attendance down to 57,909.
In the fifth inning, Ruth's second home run of the Series scored Earle Combs. The Yanks led 3-1. The Ruthian blast, according to James Harrison in The Times: "climbed uphill, while 60,000 shrieked in ecstasy and turned their eyes on the right field bleachers.
Desperate, the Pirates, fought back. They tied the score in the seventh. However, that was as far as they got. The Yankees, as everyone seemed to know they would, won the game.
Outside the Stadium about 3,000 Babe Ruth admirers waited patiently. Many policemen kept them company, at the ready to ease the Yankee icon to his car, parked on 157th Street.
The 1927 World Series, quickest ever played, lasted only 74 hours and 15 minutes and was just the second four game sweep in World Series history, the Braves over Athletics in 1914 was the first.
The Pittsburgh offense was held to a .223 average. Yankee pitchers combined for an incredible earned run average of only 2.00. Outscoring the Pirates 23-10, the men of Murderer's Row trailed a total of only two innings during the entire series. The Yankees used only 15 different players, just four pitchers.
The New York Times declared on October 12th that it had no argument with those "who assert that these Yankees are the greatest team in more than 50 years of baseball history. George Herman Ruth once again demonstrated that he is the superman of the game. . . (Dodger manager) Uncle Wilbert Robinson put it, 'That guy ought to be allowed to play only every other day.'"
The Yankees were the toast of the town, the champions, not only the best team in baseball in 1927, but they had strong bragging rights now to the mantle of the best baseball team of all time.
It was, as Waite Hoyt said, great to be young and to be a Yankee.
NY Yankees '27 World Champions
A lot of hype and hoopla surrounds the 2009 World Series especially as it swirls around the Yankees of New York - - an odds on favorite to win it all.
Win or lose it - - the Yankees of 2009 are no way the powerhouse the Yankees of 1927 were.
What happened before the World Series of 1927 would provide a source of controversy through the ages. The Waner brothers, Lloyd, "Big Poison" and Paul, "Little Poison," sent up their baseball cards to Babe Ruth who was at ease in a manner of speaking in his room in a hotel in Pittsburgh.
"Why, they're just kids," he said, "if I was that little, I'd be afraid of getting hurt."
That was the first year the Waners played together in the Pirate outfield. "That was a great thrill for us," Paul recalled. "We even brought Mother and Dad and our sister to the World Series.
"We won before it even got started," Babe Ruth wrote later. "The first two games were scheduled for Pittsburgh's Forbes Field. Naturally we showed up a day early and worked out in the strange park."
The Pirates," Ruth recalled," had their workout just before we went out onto the field. We came out from the clubhouse. Most of the Pirates had dressed and were sitting in the stands to watch us go through practice."
Earl Combs hit a shot into the centerfield stands. Mark Koenig hit a ball off the right field wall and one off the left field barrier. Then it was Babe Ruth's turn.
"The first ball I hit over the roof of the right field grandstand," the Bammer said. "I put another one into the lower tier. Then I got hold of one and laid it into the centerfield bleachers."
"We really put on a show," Ruth said. "Lou and I banged ball after ball into the right field stands. Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri kept hammering balls into the left field seats."
All of the games of the 1927 World Series were scheduled for 1:30 P.M starts except for 2 P.M for a Sunday game. Prices for seats for all games were six dollars, five dollars, three dollars and one dollar. Four umpires were assigned.
GAME ONE
Outside of Forbes Field scalpers asked $25 a ticket, a price that was considered extreme gouging, which it was. The price for a World Series program featuring Miller Huggins and Pittsburgh manager Owen J. Bush on its cover, sold for 25 cents.
The pitching match up was Yankee right-handed ace Waite Hoyt against the big horse of the all right-handed Pirate staff, Ray Kremer, National League ERA leader who had won 19 of 27 decisions. The sloppy, herky-jerky game played in two hours and four minutes finally ended Yankees 5, Pirates 4.
Grantland Rice in the New York Herald-Tribune wrote: "It was scramble and rush and hullabaloo and stampede to look upon a gaudy spectacle which turned out to be one of the dullest games of the year. If Pittsburgh couldn't beat the Yankees today, it may be a tough job later on."
Babe Ruth shouted: "Well, it won't be long now boys. It won't be long now."
GAME II
Miller Huggins, a gambler, a hunch player, a manager with six starting pitchers available to him - tabbed George Pipgras, the big guy from Minnesota, as a surprise starter for the second game of the series Thursday, October 6th,
Still using the old, greasy glove, the one that had stood him in good stead in minor league stops at Atlanta, St. Paul, Charleston, and more, Pipgras took the mound against the Pirates.
Vic Aldridge, in his eighth major league season, a 15-game winner, took the mound for Pittsburgh.
Festive Forbes Field became boo city in the late innings. Jeers and catcalls rained down from unhappy Buc rooters. Others simply expressed their displeasure with the home team's ineffectiveness by exiting the ball park. The Bucs lost, 6-2.
"I was fast that day," Pipgras recalled. "I didn't throw but three curves. They kept coming up there looking for the curve but never got it."
It was called "The World's Dullest World Series after just two games!" in a New York Herald-Tribune headline.
GAME III
On Friday October 7, lines for bleacher seats were up and running at 5 A.M. - five hours before the gates of Yankee Stadium were scheduled to open.
There were 60,695 on hand, "the biggest money crowd in the history of the title series," in James R Harrison's phrase in The New York Times. There was also the biggest gate ever to that point in time for a World Series game - $209,665. Southpaw Herb Pennock, called "the aristocrat of baseball" by writer Will Wedge, was unbeaten in four World Series decisions.
The Yankees scored in the first inning off Buc right-hander, bespectacled Lee Meadows. Gehrig poked the ball to the running track in left center field scoring Combs and Koenig both of whom had singled.
The Squire Pennock set down Pittsburgh batter after batter. The Bucs were hitless through the seventh inning, an inning when the Yankees put the game away by scoring six times. The highlight of the Yankee big inning came when Mike Cvengros, a surname according to Grantland Rice "that you said with a sneeze," relieved Meadows.
A three run shot, Ruth's first home run of the world series, pushed the Yankee lead to 8-0. It triggered wild cheers for the Colossus of Clout as he made his way around the bases behind Combs and Koenig.
The screams of one fan captured the moment: "Take off those Pirates uniforms," he bellowed, "we know you're the St. Louis Browns." The Yankees surely manhandled the Bucs like they treated the Browns. Maybe Worse.
The 8-1 romp placed the Yankees one win away from becoming the first American League team to sweep a World Series.
Game IV
Saturday October 8th was damp, cloudy like the spirits of the Pirates. Rain in the morning would hold the announced Yankee Stadium attendance down to 57,909.
In the fifth inning, Ruth's second home run of the Series scored Earle Combs. The Yanks led 3-1. The Ruthian blast, according to James Harrison in The Times: "climbed uphill, while 60,000 shrieked in ecstasy and turned their eyes on the right field bleachers.
Desperate, the Pirates, fought back. They tied the score in the seventh. However, that was as far as they got. The Yankees, as everyone seemed to know they would, won the game.
Outside the Stadium about 3,000 Babe Ruth admirers waited patiently. Many policemen kept them company, at the ready to ease the Yankee icon to his car, parked on 157th Street.
The 1927 World Series, quickest ever played, lasted only 74 hours and 15 minutes and was just the second four game sweep in World Series history, the Braves over Athletics in 1914 was the first.
The Pittsburgh offense was held to a .223 average. Yankee pitchers combined for an incredible earned run average of only 2.00. Outscoring the Pirates 23-10, the men of Murderer's Row trailed a total of only two innings during the entire series. The Yankees used only 15 different players, just four pitchers.
The New York Times declared on October 12th that it had no argument with those "who assert that these Yankees are the greatest team in more than 50 years of baseball history. George Herman Ruth once again demonstrated that he is the superman of the game. . . (Dodger manager) Uncle Wilbert Robinson put it, 'That guy ought to be allowed to play only every other day.'"
The Yankees were the toast of the town, the champions, not only the best team in baseball in 1927, but they had strong bragging rights now to the mantle of the best baseball team of all time.
It was, as Waite Hoyt said, great to be young and to be a Yankee.
Yankees Go Up 2-0 in the ALDS
Thanks to A-Rod and Mark Tiexiera, the Yankees took a commanding 2-0 lead in the ALDS.
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
October 9, 2009
Minnesota 3, N.Y. Yankees 4 at Yankee Stadium Minnesota Record: (0-2) N.Y. Yankees Record: (2-0)
Winning pitcher - David Robertson (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Jose Mijares (0-1)
Minnesota Runs: 3, Hits: 12, Errors: 1
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 4, Hits: 7, Errors: 0
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Save the Gate Update! Live on the Air with Mark Healy!
Yesterday was a HUGE success with Mark Healy and the many guests who appeared on his show.
Listen to the entire show here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Baseball-Digest-Live/2009/10/05/Preserving-The-Past
Take care.....Brad
Listen to the entire show here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Baseball-Digest-Live/2009/10/05/Preserving-The-Past
Take care.....Brad
Lousie -Looking Forward to Visit to Yankee Stadium
I'm a huge NY Yankees fan and I'm proud to say it... My whole family has been split down the line between Yankees & Giants. Coincidentally, both my mom & dad are Yankees fans. Even if I had no connection to the Giants with my family, or if I wasn't from NY, I used to attend their games and next weekend I’m going to visit my friend to attend them.
I can’t wait to be there!!
Louise
I can’t wait to be there!!
Louise
Monday, October 5, 2009
$549 for a Signed Babe Ruth Ball? Steiner Special
$549 for a Signed Babe Ruth Ball?
I’m giving you the ultimate opportunity to walk away with, perhaps, the most coveted piece of sports memorabilia on the market, a baseball hand signed by “The Great Bambino,” George Herman Ruth, authenticated by PSA/DNA. It’s all part of our “Drawing Style” Memorabilia Promotion. $549.99 guarantees you a collectable from a pool of 250 total items. You are guaranteed to receive an item valued greater than $549 (includes: a Triple Signed ball Signed by Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, and Willie Mays, a Ted Williams Game Model Autographed Bat, an Alex Rodriguez 2009 Game Used Bat, a Yankee Stadium Game Used Base from the Last Game at Yankee Stadium…just to name a few. With a little luck, you could get the ultimate prize: The Babe Ruth Signed Ball! The Babe Ruth Baseball Drawing Event will be held live at the Steiner Sports Corporate Offices in New Rochelle, NY on or about 10/26/09. The drawing will be overseen by the accounting firm of Rosen Kuslansky.
Reach Jason direct at 800-909-9162 to take part!
Here’s How it Works:
Take part for just $549.99
We will only accept 250 entries and will randomly draw to see which item you receive!
You are Guaranteed to Receive a collectable valued greater than $549!
Feel Free to contact me direct for a full list of items included by quantity to figure out your odds, as well as any questions you may have.
Also, reach me at 800-909-9162to take part!
-Jason(800-909-9162)
***Any existing coupons/promotions can not be combined with this offer
BONUS: Ask about purchasing a Team Signed 2009 Yankees Baseball Today! Only 6 Available!
Jason Klein
Product Development Executive
Steiner Sports Memorabilia, Inc.
145 Huguenot Street
New RochelleDirect: 1-800-909-9162, NY 10801
Direct:
jklein@steinersports.com1-914-307-1093
I’m giving you the ultimate opportunity to walk away with, perhaps, the most coveted piece of sports memorabilia on the market, a baseball hand signed by “The Great Bambino,” George Herman Ruth, authenticated by PSA/DNA. It’s all part of our “Drawing Style” Memorabilia Promotion. $549.99 guarantees you a collectable from a pool of 250 total items. You are guaranteed to receive an item valued greater than $549 (includes: a Triple Signed ball Signed by Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, and Willie Mays, a Ted Williams Game Model Autographed Bat, an Alex Rodriguez 2009 Game Used Bat, a Yankee Stadium Game Used Base from the Last Game at Yankee Stadium…just to name a few. With a little luck, you could get the ultimate prize: The Babe Ruth Signed Ball! The Babe Ruth Baseball Drawing Event will be held live at the Steiner Sports Corporate Offices in New Rochelle, NY on or about 10/26/09. The drawing will be overseen by the accounting firm of Rosen Kuslansky.
Reach Jason direct at 800-909-9162 to take part!
Here’s How it Works:
Take part for just $549.99
We will only accept 250 entries and will randomly draw to see which item you receive!
You are Guaranteed to Receive a collectable valued greater than $549!
Feel Free to contact me direct for a full list of items included by quantity to figure out your odds, as well as any questions you may have.
Also, reach me at 800-909-9162to take part!
-Jason(800-909-9162)
***Any existing coupons/promotions can not be combined with this offer
BONUS: Ask about purchasing a Team Signed 2009 Yankees Baseball Today! Only 6 Available!
Jason Klein
Product Development Executive
Steiner Sports Memorabilia, Inc.
145 Huguenot Street
New RochelleDirect: 1-800-909-9162, NY 10801
Direct:
jklein@steinersports.com1-914-307-1093
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Yankees Win Final Regular Season Game - AJ Shines in Win
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
October 4, 2009
N.Y. Yankees 10, Tampa Bay 2 at Tropicana Field
N.Y. Yankees Record: (103-59) Tampa Bay Record: (84-78)
Winning pitcher - A.J. Burnett (13-9)
Losing pitcher - Wade Davis (2-2)
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 10, Hits: 12, Errors: 0 Tampa Bay Runs: 2, Hits: 7, Errors: 2
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/3OUASZ/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Visit yankees.com for more information:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/V19GX6/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Standings:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/QFD17H/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Game Notes:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/M94NV1/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Video Highlights:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/9ZGWPI/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Photo Gallery:
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October 4, 2009
N.Y. Yankees 10, Tampa Bay 2 at Tropicana Field
N.Y. Yankees Record: (103-59) Tampa Bay Record: (84-78)
Winning pitcher - A.J. Burnett (13-9)
Losing pitcher - Wade Davis (2-2)
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 10, Hits: 12, Errors: 0 Tampa Bay Runs: 2, Hits: 7, Errors: 2
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/3OUASZ/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Visit yankees.com for more information:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/V19GX6/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Standings:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/QFD17H/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Game Notes:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/M94NV1/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Video Highlights:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/9ZGWPI/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
Photo Gallery:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/UJZFA0/2LRYB/0FITK/MJDIBZ/HDA983/QR/t?a=partnerId=ed-2994034-55341588%26source=ed-2994034-55341588
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