The death of George Floyd last week, along with the killing of Michael Brown in 2014, the grand jury decision in the case of Eric Garner in 2015, and the neo-Nazi and white supremacists march in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, have aggravated what many historians call ‘the fault line of America’—racism. These examples do not constitute an inclusive listing of the injustices...
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On May 31, 1964, the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants played a scheduled doubleheader at the then new Shea Stadium. A record crowd of 57,037 – the largest crowd in MLB that year – was on hand, and what they witnessed bordered on the surreal. The first game started at 1:05 PM. When all was said and done, the fans that stayed the course nearly stayed until June, as the games...
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“Nobody likes to hear it, because it is dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same–pitching.” -Earl Weaver Even if the above quote didn’t include his patented ‘three-run homer’ in addition to his recipe for success, the point is as well taken as it is obvious — a teams’ pitching is what makes or breaks a season. Perhaps no...
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It’s not every day that a player who figured prominently in a famous book, and later a movie based on that book, comes knocking on your door. But that’s exactly what happened to the New York Mets when they signed Chad Bradford as a free agent before the 2006 season. Bradford, never known for his athletic ability, relied on his unorthodox submarine-style delivery to get major league...
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Sometimes the grass isn’t greener. New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry wishes he never signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers after spending the first eight years of his career with the New York Mets. Telling SNY in an interview on Tuesday… “It was heartbreaking leaving the Mets. That was the biggest mistake I really ever made in my career was leaving New York to...
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