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Red Sox On Sacred Ground
The Red Sox were the Yankees' first opponent when Yankee Stadium opened in 1923, the first of 770 games they have played in the House that Ruth Built. The Red Sox have a 283-483 record with four ties in the Bronx, and as they make their last scheduled...Tags: Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Babe Ruth, Joe Cronin, Lou Piniella
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THIS DAY AT THE OLD BALLPARK
Aug. 8, 1970, at Yankee Stadium: Casey Stengel's number 37 was retired at Old-Timers' Day before a 4-2 loss to the Orioles. Boog Powell and Merv Rettenmund homered in the third inning. Aug. 8, 1997, at Shea Stadium: Brian Bohanon allowed three hits...Tags: Houston Astros, Brian Bohanon, Baltimore Orioles
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For tricky California budgets, turn to the old masters
CAPITOL JOURNALWhenever legislators become frozen in a budget bog, I remember the words of two historic leaders. One was the 19th century chancellor of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, who said, "Politics is the art of the possible." Meaning, as pundit William Safire put...Tags: Dave Cogdill, Executive Branch, Upper House, New York Mets, New York Yankees
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Whatever happened to ... Ron Swoboda?
Former New York Mets right fielder Ron Swoboda will be visiting Baltimore this weekend to spend some time with his father at the family home on Lakeview Avenue in Sparrows Point. Swoboda, 64, is now a television color commentator for the New Orleans...Tags: Baseball, New York Mets, Memorial Stadium, University of Maryland, Brooks Robinson
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Old-Timers remember Yankee Stadium
mark.herrmann@newsday.com; arthur.staple@newsday.comThe most storied and venerable Old-Timer yesterday was one that never did get introduced but needed no introduction. Yankee Stadium always speaks for itself. Old-Timers' Day probably never will be quite the same, what with the 85-year-old building to...Tags: Rickey Henderson, World Series, Mickey Mantle, Baseball, Graeme Lloyd
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Al Jackson knows how bad Mets can be
mark.herrmann@newsday.comAfter all these years and so many tries, the perfect slogan for the Mets has just bubbled to the surface. It succeeds where "The Magic Is Back" and "Your Season Has Come" failed. Here, finally, is the one phrase that encapsulates being a Met or Mets fan:...Tags: Harry Caray, Baseball, New York Mets, Ceremonies, Bob Gibson
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Mets' real problem lies with Minaya
Come to think of it, maybe the Mets did Willie Randolph a favor last Tuesday morning in Anaheim. After their non-performance Monday night against the hopeless Seattle Mariners, that midnight assassination is looking more and more like euthanasia. I mean,...Tags: New York Mets, Damion Easley, Johan Santana, Moises Alou, Omar Minaya
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O'Dell proudly saves All-Star memories
Sun reporterBilly O'Dell might be feeding the cows, or fishing for bass, or hunting the wild turkeys that scuttle about on the edge of his farm in South Carolina. Then it hits him. "I'll think, 'Did I really pitch against [ Stan] Musial and [ Willie] Mays and...Tags: Stan Musial, Memorial Stadium, Bill Mazeroski, National League, Baltimore Orioles
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Going out in style
Associated PressWhen Yankee Stadium opened for business April 18, 1923, an army of writers strained for adjectives to describe the majestic, triple-decked structure that loomed over the landscape like the Colosseum in Rome, somehow relocated to the Bronx. Babe Ruth, who...Tags: Reggie Jackson, Arts, John McGraw, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio
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Manuel right on, but telling truth is no-no
wallace.matthews@newsday.comJerry Manuel has one very important lesson to learn about managing in this town: Honesty is the worst policy. Candor will get you nowhere. No manager in New York history ever lost a job for lying, but the truth has set more than a few free to manage...Tags: Baseball, New York Mets, Major League Baseball
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Clay Felker, 82; editor of New York magazine led New Journalism charge
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterClay Felker, the innovative founding editor of New York magazine who was widely considered one of the great post-World War II magazine editors in the U.S. and a key figure in the emergence of New Journalism in the 1960s, died Tuesday. He was 82. Felker,...Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Nora Ephron, New York Times, John F. Kennedy, Defense
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Pirates revisiting history with Yankees in town
Of The Associated PressThe Pirates are throwing a welcoming party tonight when the New York Yankees play in Pittsburgh for the first time since the 1960 World Series. This time, Bill Mazeroski will have a baseball in his hand rather than a bat. Mazeroski, who hit the only Game...Tags: New York Yankees, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente Jr., Super Bowl, Baseball
Aug 26, 2008
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Aug 8, 2008
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Aug 11, 2008
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Aug 9, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 3, 2008
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Jun 29, 2008
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Jun 24, 2008
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Jul 13, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 6, 2008
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Jun 30, 2008
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Jul 2, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 24, 2008
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
