New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 27, 2009
N.Y. Yankees 11, Tampa Bay 4 at Tropicana Field N.Y. Yankees Record: (61-38) Tampa Bay Record: (54-46)
Winning pitcher - A.J. Burnett (10-4)
Losing pitcher - James Shields (6-7)
SV - David Robertson (1)
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 11, Hits: 15, Errors: 1 Tampa Bay Runs: 4, Hits: 6, Errors: 1
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 28, 2009 07:08 PM ET vs. Tampa Bay Rays
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Baseball Names - and How They Got That Way! Part XI
Harvey Frommer
On Sports
(From the Vault)
Baseball Names - and How They Got That Way! Part XI
The words and phrases are spoken and written day after day, year after year - generally without any wonderment as to how they became part of the language. All have a history, a story. For those of you who liked Part I, Part II, Part III and all the others and wanted more, here is more.
As always, reactions and suggestions always welcome.
CHOO-CHOO COLEMAN A catcher for the New York Mets during their early struggling years, Coleman is a case in point of the fact that not all things can be traced back to their origins. Once during a television interview, Coleman was asked how he got his nickname. He responded, "I don't know." He followed this up some time later with another gem. Casey Stengel, a bit frustrated by the ineptitude of the Mets, decided to return to basics. He held up a baseball during a locker-room meeting and said, "This is a baseball." Coleman interrupted, "Wait, you're going too fast."
CLOWN PRINCE OF BASEBALL Al Schacht performed for only three seasons as a member of the Washington Senators (1919-21), but he still was able to make a mighty reputation on the baseball field. Schacht was a comic and his routines centered on the foibles and eccentricities of the National Pastime. It was said that nobody did it better, and that's why Schacht was dubbed the Clown Prince.
"THE COUNT" - Sparky Lyle, handlebar mustache and lordy ways contributed to his look and nickname.
CRAB, THE The middle man in the famed Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combination, Johnny Evers was a pugnacious and combative ball player and manager. Admitted to the Hall of Fame in 1946, Evers had an 18-year playing career and managed for three other years. His ingoing personality and bench-jockeying ability gave him his nickname on merit.
Pitcher Jesse Burkett earned the name for his surly disposition and also the peculiar manner of his stride.
"CRIME DOG" Fred McGriff was given this name by ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, a play on McGruff, a cartoon dog developed for American police to raise children's awareness on crime prevention.
CROW, THE A fairly little man with a screechy voice, Frank Crosetti fit his nickname. He played shortstop for the New York Yankees for 17 years and then had a long stint as a coach with the team.
"CY" His full name was Denton True Young. His nickname was given to him by a young catcher helping to warm him up. The backstop reported that Young pitched as fast as a "cyclone." Reporters shortened the nickname to Cy.
Young was still in great pitching shape until he was 44 years old. He credited his daily chores and farm work for giving him strength.
CY THE SECOND Irving Melrose Young pitched for six years in the major leagues concurrently with Denton True Young--the storied "Cy" Young who won 508 games in his career. Irving Young only won 62, while losing 94, but the fact that he had the same last name and pitched at the same time as the great Cy Young earned Irving his nickname (see CY YOUNG AWARD).
CY THE THIRD In 1908, a year in which Cy Young won 21 games and compiled a 1.26 earned-run average, Harley E. Young made it to the major leagues. He pitched only 752 plus innings, losing three games and winning none. But because his last name and the time he played reminded fans of the great Cy Young, Harley was called Cy the Third.
CY YOUNG AWARD Baseball's award to the top pitcher in each league originated in 1956. The rationale was that pitchers were at a disadvantage in Most Valuable Player balloting. The award gets its name from the Hall of Famer who pitched for 22 years, winning more games than any other performer in baseball history (508). Young also started more games, completed more games, pitched more innings than any other pitcher in history. He is fourth on the all-time list in strikeouts and shutouts. His career accomplishments personified the value of a pitcher to a team and underlined the reason for naming the award for the top pitcher after him.
DAFFINESS BOYS Also known as Dem Brooklyn Bums, the 1926 Brooklyn Dodgers wrought havoc on friend and foe alike. The hotshot of the team was freeswinging, slump-shouldered Babe Herman, dubbed the Incredible Hoiman, who bragged that among his stupendous feats was stealing second base with the bases loaded. Once Herman was one of a troika of Dodger base runners who found themselves all on third base at the same time. A Dodger rookie turned to Brooklyn manager "Uncle" Wilbert Robinson on the bench. "You call that playing baseball?" "Uncle" Robbie responded, "Leave them alone. That's the first time they've been together all year."
DEM BUMS When the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957, they left the "bums" behind. A beloved nickname in Flatbush, Gowns, Bensonhurst, and Williamsburg, "Bums" was deemed not quite appropriate for the Dodgers of Los Angeles. The nickname originated during the Depression. There was an excitable Brooklyn fan who used to scratch and claw at the chicken wire screen behind home plate at Ebbets Field. One day he was moved to anger at what he perceived as the inadequacies of the home team. "Ya, bum, ya, yez, bums, yez!" he bellowed. From that moment on, "Bums" meant Brooklyn Dodgers. The term was pictorialized by such cartoonists as Willard Mullin, used in newspaper headlines and stories, and capitalized on by the Dodger organization in its image-making for the Brooklyn team.
DIZZY and DAFFY DEAN Perhaps the most famous of all brother acts in the history of sports was "Me and Paul," the dazzling Dean brothers of the St. Louis Cardinals. Jerome Hannah Dean, also known as Jay Hannah Dean and best known as Dizzy, and his kid brother Paul, also known as Daffy, beguiled National League batters in the 1930's and at times drove their own teammates to despair with their madcap antics.
The brothers were born in a rickety shack on a plot of Arkansas ground that their destitute sharecropper parents worked. Dizzy picked cotton for 50 cents a day, and although he later bragged that he learned how to pitch while attending Oklahoma State Teachers College, he only went as far as the second grade in school. In Dizzy, and to a lesser extent Paul, was the sadness and brashness of the American Depression experience. "Some of the things I seen in this here life," Dizzy recalled, "almost cause my ol' heart to bust right through my sweatshirt."
Dizzy grew to be a 6'2", slope-shouldered right hander, a little bigger than his younger brother. Both of them had arms and hands toughened and shaped by the cotton fields. "I never bothered what those guys could hit and couldn't hit," he said. "All I knowed is that they weren't gonna get a-holt of that ball ol' Diz was throwin'."
In 1934, Dizzy and Daffy won 49 games between them. Dizzy won 30--more than any Cardinal pitcher ever. In a doubleheader against Brooklyn, Diz one-hit the Dodgers in the first game and Paul no-hit them in the second game. "If I'd a knowed Paul was gonna do that," Diz said, "I'd a done the same."
Dizzy was actually the zanier brother. Paul went along with his antics and thus was labeled Daffy. Dizzy once wrapped himself in a blanket and made a fire in front of the Cardinal dugout on a day when the temperature was over 100 degrees. Dizzy once led Daffy and a couple of other Cardinals into a staid hotel and announced to the manager that he was under orders to redecorate the place. Armed with ladders, buckets of paint, and brushes, the baseball players proceeded to splash red paint with wild abandon all over the walls of the hotel lobby. Dizzy also once made more than a mild commotion when he told scouts and newspapermen that there was a third Dean "who was throwin' real good at Tulsa." When the tip was checked out, it turned out that the third Dean brother who was "throwing real good" was throwing bags of peanuts--he was a peanut vendor at the Tulsa ball park.
The Deans had bright but relatively brief careers.
Paul won 19 games in both 1934 and 1935 and then lapsed into a journeyman pitcher role, the victim of arm trouble. In the 1937 All-Star Game, Dizzy had a line shot off the bat of Earl Averill carom off his right foot. They found out later that his toe was broken. Diz pitched again and again during the 1937 season, but he was not what he was; the fluid, cotton picking pitching motion was gone. He finished the year with a 13-10 record, and in 1938 he was sent to the Cubs for two pitchers and $200,000. He won seven, lost one, and had an ERA of 1.81, but that was his last year of pitching effectiveness. They were Dizzy and Daffy, but in their time they beguiled baseball fans and intimidated National League hitters.
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Harvey Frommer is his 33rd consecutive year of writing sports books. The author of 40 of them including the classics: "New York City Baseball,1947-1957" and "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his acclaimed REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM, an oral/narrative history (Abrams, Stewart, Tabori and Chang) was published in 2008 as well as a reprint version of his classic "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball." The prolific Frommer is at work on REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK (2010).
Frommer sports books are available direct from the author - discounted and autographed.
FROMMER SPORTSNET (syndicated) reaches a readership in the millions and is housed on Internet search engines for extended periods of time.
On Sports
(From the Vault)
Baseball Names - and How They Got That Way! Part XI
The words and phrases are spoken and written day after day, year after year - generally without any wonderment as to how they became part of the language. All have a history, a story. For those of you who liked Part I, Part II, Part III and all the others and wanted more, here is more.
As always, reactions and suggestions always welcome.
CHOO-CHOO COLEMAN A catcher for the New York Mets during their early struggling years, Coleman is a case in point of the fact that not all things can be traced back to their origins. Once during a television interview, Coleman was asked how he got his nickname. He responded, "I don't know." He followed this up some time later with another gem. Casey Stengel, a bit frustrated by the ineptitude of the Mets, decided to return to basics. He held up a baseball during a locker-room meeting and said, "This is a baseball." Coleman interrupted, "Wait, you're going too fast."
CLOWN PRINCE OF BASEBALL Al Schacht performed for only three seasons as a member of the Washington Senators (1919-21), but he still was able to make a mighty reputation on the baseball field. Schacht was a comic and his routines centered on the foibles and eccentricities of the National Pastime. It was said that nobody did it better, and that's why Schacht was dubbed the Clown Prince.
"THE COUNT" - Sparky Lyle, handlebar mustache and lordy ways contributed to his look and nickname.
CRAB, THE The middle man in the famed Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combination, Johnny Evers was a pugnacious and combative ball player and manager. Admitted to the Hall of Fame in 1946, Evers had an 18-year playing career and managed for three other years. His ingoing personality and bench-jockeying ability gave him his nickname on merit.
Pitcher Jesse Burkett earned the name for his surly disposition and also the peculiar manner of his stride.
"CRIME DOG" Fred McGriff was given this name by ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, a play on McGruff, a cartoon dog developed for American police to raise children's awareness on crime prevention.
CROW, THE A fairly little man with a screechy voice, Frank Crosetti fit his nickname. He played shortstop for the New York Yankees for 17 years and then had a long stint as a coach with the team.
"CY" His full name was Denton True Young. His nickname was given to him by a young catcher helping to warm him up. The backstop reported that Young pitched as fast as a "cyclone." Reporters shortened the nickname to Cy.
Young was still in great pitching shape until he was 44 years old. He credited his daily chores and farm work for giving him strength.
CY THE SECOND Irving Melrose Young pitched for six years in the major leagues concurrently with Denton True Young--the storied "Cy" Young who won 508 games in his career. Irving Young only won 62, while losing 94, but the fact that he had the same last name and pitched at the same time as the great Cy Young earned Irving his nickname (see CY YOUNG AWARD).
CY THE THIRD In 1908, a year in which Cy Young won 21 games and compiled a 1.26 earned-run average, Harley E. Young made it to the major leagues. He pitched only 752 plus innings, losing three games and winning none. But because his last name and the time he played reminded fans of the great Cy Young, Harley was called Cy the Third.
CY YOUNG AWARD Baseball's award to the top pitcher in each league originated in 1956. The rationale was that pitchers were at a disadvantage in Most Valuable Player balloting. The award gets its name from the Hall of Famer who pitched for 22 years, winning more games than any other performer in baseball history (508). Young also started more games, completed more games, pitched more innings than any other pitcher in history. He is fourth on the all-time list in strikeouts and shutouts. His career accomplishments personified the value of a pitcher to a team and underlined the reason for naming the award for the top pitcher after him.
DAFFINESS BOYS Also known as Dem Brooklyn Bums, the 1926 Brooklyn Dodgers wrought havoc on friend and foe alike. The hotshot of the team was freeswinging, slump-shouldered Babe Herman, dubbed the Incredible Hoiman, who bragged that among his stupendous feats was stealing second base with the bases loaded. Once Herman was one of a troika of Dodger base runners who found themselves all on third base at the same time. A Dodger rookie turned to Brooklyn manager "Uncle" Wilbert Robinson on the bench. "You call that playing baseball?" "Uncle" Robbie responded, "Leave them alone. That's the first time they've been together all year."
DEM BUMS When the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957, they left the "bums" behind. A beloved nickname in Flatbush, Gowns, Bensonhurst, and Williamsburg, "Bums" was deemed not quite appropriate for the Dodgers of Los Angeles. The nickname originated during the Depression. There was an excitable Brooklyn fan who used to scratch and claw at the chicken wire screen behind home plate at Ebbets Field. One day he was moved to anger at what he perceived as the inadequacies of the home team. "Ya, bum, ya, yez, bums, yez!" he bellowed. From that moment on, "Bums" meant Brooklyn Dodgers. The term was pictorialized by such cartoonists as Willard Mullin, used in newspaper headlines and stories, and capitalized on by the Dodger organization in its image-making for the Brooklyn team.
DIZZY and DAFFY DEAN Perhaps the most famous of all brother acts in the history of sports was "Me and Paul," the dazzling Dean brothers of the St. Louis Cardinals. Jerome Hannah Dean, also known as Jay Hannah Dean and best known as Dizzy, and his kid brother Paul, also known as Daffy, beguiled National League batters in the 1930's and at times drove their own teammates to despair with their madcap antics.
The brothers were born in a rickety shack on a plot of Arkansas ground that their destitute sharecropper parents worked. Dizzy picked cotton for 50 cents a day, and although he later bragged that he learned how to pitch while attending Oklahoma State Teachers College, he only went as far as the second grade in school. In Dizzy, and to a lesser extent Paul, was the sadness and brashness of the American Depression experience. "Some of the things I seen in this here life," Dizzy recalled, "almost cause my ol' heart to bust right through my sweatshirt."
Dizzy grew to be a 6'2", slope-shouldered right hander, a little bigger than his younger brother. Both of them had arms and hands toughened and shaped by the cotton fields. "I never bothered what those guys could hit and couldn't hit," he said. "All I knowed is that they weren't gonna get a-holt of that ball ol' Diz was throwin'."
In 1934, Dizzy and Daffy won 49 games between them. Dizzy won 30--more than any Cardinal pitcher ever. In a doubleheader against Brooklyn, Diz one-hit the Dodgers in the first game and Paul no-hit them in the second game. "If I'd a knowed Paul was gonna do that," Diz said, "I'd a done the same."
Dizzy was actually the zanier brother. Paul went along with his antics and thus was labeled Daffy. Dizzy once wrapped himself in a blanket and made a fire in front of the Cardinal dugout on a day when the temperature was over 100 degrees. Dizzy once led Daffy and a couple of other Cardinals into a staid hotel and announced to the manager that he was under orders to redecorate the place. Armed with ladders, buckets of paint, and brushes, the baseball players proceeded to splash red paint with wild abandon all over the walls of the hotel lobby. Dizzy also once made more than a mild commotion when he told scouts and newspapermen that there was a third Dean "who was throwin' real good at Tulsa." When the tip was checked out, it turned out that the third Dean brother who was "throwing real good" was throwing bags of peanuts--he was a peanut vendor at the Tulsa ball park.
The Deans had bright but relatively brief careers.
Paul won 19 games in both 1934 and 1935 and then lapsed into a journeyman pitcher role, the victim of arm trouble. In the 1937 All-Star Game, Dizzy had a line shot off the bat of Earl Averill carom off his right foot. They found out later that his toe was broken. Diz pitched again and again during the 1937 season, but he was not what he was; the fluid, cotton picking pitching motion was gone. He finished the year with a 13-10 record, and in 1938 he was sent to the Cubs for two pitchers and $200,000. He won seven, lost one, and had an ERA of 1.81, but that was his last year of pitching effectiveness. They were Dizzy and Daffy, but in their time they beguiled baseball fans and intimidated National League hitters.
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Harvey Frommer is his 33rd consecutive year of writing sports books. The author of 40 of them including the classics: "New York City Baseball,1947-1957" and "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his acclaimed REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM, an oral/narrative history (Abrams, Stewart, Tabori and Chang) was published in 2008 as well as a reprint version of his classic "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball." The prolific Frommer is at work on REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK (2010).
Frommer sports books are available direct from the author - discounted and autographed.
FROMMER SPORTSNET (syndicated) reaches a readership in the millions and is housed on Internet search engines for extended periods of time.
9-1 on the Homestand
The Yankees did what they were supposed to do this homestand and maintain and 2 1/2 game lead in the AL East. Pitching, pitching, and pitching is what got the Yankees in the win column, much more than the bats. The pitching has been great and Hughes has been the shut down guy in the 8th to get to Mo. So far it is working out better than anyone expected, even Phil! The Yankees now travel to Tampa for a very important series. GO YANKEES!
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
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July 26, 2009
Oakland 5, N.Y. Yankees 7 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (41-56)
N.Y. Yankees Record: (60-38)
Winning pitcher - Phil Coke (2-3)
Losing pitcher - Dallas Braden (7-9)
SV - Mariano Rivera (29)
1 2 3 4 5 6
OAK 2 0 0 1 0 2
NYY 4 0 0 0 0 3
7 8 9 R H E
OAK 0 0 0 5 12 0
NYY 0 0 X 7 12 1
Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 27, 2009 07:08 PM ET vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Upcoming N.Y. Yankees Home Games:
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 6, 2009 07:05 PM ET
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 7, 2009 07:05 PM ET
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 8, 2009 04:10 PM ET
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
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July 26, 2009
Oakland 5, N.Y. Yankees 7 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (41-56)
N.Y. Yankees Record: (60-38)
Winning pitcher - Phil Coke (2-3)
Losing pitcher - Dallas Braden (7-9)
SV - Mariano Rivera (29)
1 2 3 4 5 6
OAK 2 0 0 1 0 2
NYY 4 0 0 0 0 3
7 8 9 R H E
OAK 0 0 0 5 12 0
NYY 0 0 X 7 12 1
Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 27, 2009 07:08 PM ET vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Upcoming N.Y. Yankees Home Games:
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 6, 2009 07:05 PM ET
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 7, 2009 07:05 PM ET
vs. Boston Red Sox, August 8, 2009 04:10 PM ET
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Demolition Update of Yankee Stadium
The latest word on demolition is: (from JT)
They will be going clockwise starting in RF by Gate 6. The loge level will be removed first and then the upper deck. The original exterior walls will be deconstructed last and pulled inward using bulldozers. Total demo is to be completed by Spring 2010.
The next Parks Dept presentation to the NYC Design Commission will probably be on August 10th (the July meeting was cancelled). We need to have a good turnout/presence for that meeting. The final Parks Dept. design for Heritage Park is scheduled to be finalized/approved by the end of December 2009. The Design Commission has asked Parks to incorporate more historical elements in their revised design.
As Yogi said: "It ain't over 'til it's over"!
Thanks to JT for the information.
HALL OF FAME VOTING GUIDELINES FOR STEROID ERA PLAYERS
INTERNET BASEBALL WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA SETS HALL OF FAME VOTING GUIDELINES FOR STEROID ERA PLAYERS
Los Angeles - On the morning of July 14, 2009, the Base Ball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) voted against forming a committee to establish guidelines for Hall of Fame voting regarding players of the steroid era.
By 3:00 p.m. PST, the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) had formed a committee to develop guidelines on the matter for the association's members. Results are as follows:
1. IBWAA steroid era Hall of Fame guidelines have been established for IBWAA voting purposes only. It is neither our intention to tell the BBWAA how to run its business, nor to criticize the Hall in any way, shape or form. We do, however, think the BBWAA's decision not to form a committee was silly.
2. Our performance-enhancing drug (PED) guidelines are subject to addendum. It is the expressed intention of the IBWAA to change on the fly, to be inclusive, and to incorporate new members' thoughts into existing policies and procedures.
3. Hall of Fame voting is to be, first and foremost, a democratic process. One person, one vote, with voting by secret ballot, and every vote counting equally.
4. Individual members are free to share his or her votes publicly, and in any form of media available, but are under no obligation to do so. Members choosing to discuss his or her votes publicly do not speak for the IBWAA as a group in so doing.
5. Voters may consider a player's performance-enhancing drug use as part of the selection process. While there is to be no suggestion by the IBWAA to its members that a player's name appearing in the Mitchell Report be considered with any particular degree of severity in the selection process, a member may consider such an appearance as part of his or her thinking.
6. Similarly, voters may consider a player's suspension by Major League Baseball for having tested positive for a banned substance during his career, but are not required to do so.
7. The IBWAA strongly suggests that while qualities of sportsmanship and character be considered as part of the equation, members should endeavor not to be influenced by rumors, hearsay, unsubstantiated items found to be in publication, a player's ethnic background or physical appearance as voting criteria.
Participating members of the new IBWAA committee include Kevin Braun, freelance writer and former copy editor at Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Howard Cole, editor, BaseballSavvy.com; Tom Hoffarth, Media/General Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News; Ron Kaplan, sports and features editor, New Jersey Jewish News; and Dave Nichols, editor, Nationals News Network.
Launched July 4, 2009, the IBWAA was created by Cole to organize and promote the growing online baseball media, and to serve as an alternative voice to the Base Ball Writers Association of America.
Association memberships are open to any and all Internet baseball writers, with a yearly membership of $10.
For more information on the IBWAA, please visit the temporary webpage here, http://www.baseballsavvy.com/internetbaseballwriters.html. In the coming months, the IBWAA can be found at www.InternetBaseballWriters.com. Howard Cole can be reached at baseballsavvy@aol.com.
Howard Cole
Acting Director, IBWAA
baseballsavvy@aol.com
Los Angeles - On the morning of July 14, 2009, the Base Ball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) voted against forming a committee to establish guidelines for Hall of Fame voting regarding players of the steroid era.
By 3:00 p.m. PST, the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) had formed a committee to develop guidelines on the matter for the association's members. Results are as follows:
1. IBWAA steroid era Hall of Fame guidelines have been established for IBWAA voting purposes only. It is neither our intention to tell the BBWAA how to run its business, nor to criticize the Hall in any way, shape or form. We do, however, think the BBWAA's decision not to form a committee was silly.
2. Our performance-enhancing drug (PED) guidelines are subject to addendum. It is the expressed intention of the IBWAA to change on the fly, to be inclusive, and to incorporate new members' thoughts into existing policies and procedures.
3. Hall of Fame voting is to be, first and foremost, a democratic process. One person, one vote, with voting by secret ballot, and every vote counting equally.
4. Individual members are free to share his or her votes publicly, and in any form of media available, but are under no obligation to do so. Members choosing to discuss his or her votes publicly do not speak for the IBWAA as a group in so doing.
5. Voters may consider a player's performance-enhancing drug use as part of the selection process. While there is to be no suggestion by the IBWAA to its members that a player's name appearing in the Mitchell Report be considered with any particular degree of severity in the selection process, a member may consider such an appearance as part of his or her thinking.
6. Similarly, voters may consider a player's suspension by Major League Baseball for having tested positive for a banned substance during his career, but are not required to do so.
7. The IBWAA strongly suggests that while qualities of sportsmanship and character be considered as part of the equation, members should endeavor not to be influenced by rumors, hearsay, unsubstantiated items found to be in publication, a player's ethnic background or physical appearance as voting criteria.
Participating members of the new IBWAA committee include Kevin Braun, freelance writer and former copy editor at Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Howard Cole, editor, BaseballSavvy.com; Tom Hoffarth, Media/General Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News; Ron Kaplan, sports and features editor, New Jersey Jewish News; and Dave Nichols, editor, Nationals News Network.
Launched July 4, 2009, the IBWAA was created by Cole to organize and promote the growing online baseball media, and to serve as an alternative voice to the Base Ball Writers Association of America.
Association memberships are open to any and all Internet baseball writers, with a yearly membership of $10.
For more information on the IBWAA, please visit the temporary webpage here, http://www.baseballsavvy.com/internetbaseballwriters.html. In the coming months, the IBWAA can be found at www.InternetBaseballWriters.com. Howard Cole can be reached at baseballsavvy@aol.com.
Howard Cole
Acting Director, IBWAA
baseballsavvy@aol.com
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Winning Streak Finally Ends
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 25, 2009
Oakland 6, N.Y. Yankees 4 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (41-55) N.Y. Yankees Record: (59-38)
Winning pitcher - Gio Gonzalez (2-2)
Losing pitcher - Andy Pettitte (8-6)
SV - Andrew Bailey (11)
Oakland Runs: 6, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 4, Hits: 6, Errors: 0
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Visit yankees.com for more information:
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Standings:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 26, 2009 01:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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vs. Boston Red Sox, August 7, 2009 07:05 PM ET
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July 25, 2009
Oakland 6, N.Y. Yankees 4 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (41-55) N.Y. Yankees Record: (59-38)
Winning pitcher - Gio Gonzalez (2-2)
Losing pitcher - Andy Pettitte (8-6)
SV - Andrew Bailey (11)
Oakland Runs: 6, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 4, Hits: 6, Errors: 0
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 26, 2009 01:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
Upcoming N.Y. Yankees Home Games:
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vs. Boston Red Sox, August 6, 2009 07:05 PM ET
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vs. Boston Red Sox, August 7, 2009 07:05 PM ET
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Friday, July 24, 2009
SAVE THE GATE UPDATE!!!! NEW EVENT!
August 29 at the Ketcham Inn in Center Moriches, NY. Along with the Save the Gate event, Linda Ruth Tosetti, grand-daughter of Babe Ruth, will be there. I will post more details about the event as it gets closer!
New York Yankees Postgame Alert for July 24
And the winning streak continues! 22 games over .500! GO YANKEES!
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 24, 2009
Oakland 3, N.Y. Yankees 8 at Yankee Stadium Oakland Record: (40-55) N.Y. Yankees Record: (59-37)
Winning pitcher - Joba Chamberlain (6-2) Losing pitcher - Brett Anderson (5-8)
Oakland Runs: 3, Hits: 4, Errors: 1
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 8, Hits: 12, Errors: 1
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
http://link.mlblists.com/r/EAP73J/2S38D/UE4N7/304B4R/6V3Q7L/YT/t?a=partnerId=ed-2771851-55341588%26source=ed-2771851-55341588
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Standings:
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Game Notes:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 25, 2009 01:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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New York Yankees Postgame Alert for July 23
The Yankees continue to roll and go to 21 games over .500 as they defeat the A's at the Stadium. CC got his 10th win of the season. He struggled early but settled down and got the victory. Hughes picked up his 1st save of the season and Mo rested. The Yankees take on the A's again tomorrow as part of this 4 game series.
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 23, 2009
Oakland 3, N.Y. Yankees 6 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (40-54) N.Y. Yankees Record: (58-37)
Winning pitcher - CC Sabathia (10-6)
Losing pitcher - Vin Mazzaro (2-7)
SV - Phil Hughes (1)
Oakland Runs: 3, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 6, Hits: 10, Errors: 0
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 24, 2009 07:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 25, 2009 01:05 PM ET
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New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 23, 2009
Oakland 3, N.Y. Yankees 6 at Yankee Stadium
Oakland Record: (40-54) N.Y. Yankees Record: (58-37)
Winning pitcher - CC Sabathia (10-6)
Losing pitcher - Vin Mazzaro (2-7)
SV - Phil Hughes (1)
Oakland Runs: 3, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 6, Hits: 10, Errors: 0
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 24, 2009 07:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 26, 2009 01:05 PM ET
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
New York Yankees Postgame Alert for July 22
20 games over .500!!! 2 sweeps in a row for the Yankees. Go Yankees!
New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 22, 2009
Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 6 at Yankee Stadium
Baltimore Record: (41-53) N.Y. Yankees Record: (57-37)
Winning pitcher - A.J. Burnett (9-4)
Losing pitcher - Jason Berken (1-8)
SV - Mariano Rivera (28)
Baltimore Runs: 4, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 6, Hits: 11, Errors: 1
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Standings:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 23, 2009 07:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 24, 2009 07:05 PM ET
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 25, 2009 01:05 PM ET
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New York Yankees Postgame Alert
July 22, 2009
Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 6 at Yankee Stadium
Baltimore Record: (41-53) N.Y. Yankees Record: (57-37)
Winning pitcher - A.J. Burnett (9-4)
Losing pitcher - Jason Berken (1-8)
SV - Mariano Rivera (28)
Baltimore Runs: 4, Hits: 9, Errors: 0
N.Y. Yankees Runs: 6, Hits: 11, Errors: 1
GAME LINKS:
Game Recap & Box Score:
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Standings:
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Next N.Y. Yankees Game: July 23, 2009 07:05 PM ET vs. Oakland Athletics
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 24, 2009 07:05 PM ET
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vs. Oakland Athletics, July 25, 2009 01:05 PM ET
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