Baseball
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Tim Wakefield [Wakefield, Tim]

FAN FAVORITE: An injured Wakefield pulled himself from the playoff rotation in 2007, but his contributions were not forgotten. Paul Keleher / Flickr Unreleased / Getty Images FINALLY, AN ALL-STAR: ...
( Category: Baseball February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]

CHAPTER 10 GRADUALLY THE VETERAN YANKEE players were coming to know Stengel. He was shrewd, talkative, and theatrical. He could be arbitrary, and sometimes he seemed a bit odd. When ...
( Category: State & Local February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Tom Clavin [Clavin, Tom]

The spring of 1945 had found Joe as a physical training instructor in the Army Air Forces Redistribution Center in Atlantic City. Nearby, at Bader Field, that year’s edition of ...
( Category: Baseball February 2,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Todd Glass

CHAPTER 25 TWO NOTEBOOKS Comedy’s gay marriage (between stand-up and sketch). I couldn’t believe what I was feeling, like it was somebody else who’d been doing stand-up for more than ...
( Category: Comedy January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hal Bodley [Bodley, Hal]

10. The Dream Is Alive in Oakland Across the choppy waters of San Francisco Bay the city of Oakland rises out of the fog, almost like a little boy standing ...
( Category: United States January 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Marty Appel [Appel, Marty]

DIMAGGIO WAITED UNTIL December 11 to make his plans public. Similar to what Ruth had done after his last Yankee season, he toured Japan and Korea with a traveling U.S. ...
( Category: State & Local January 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Ian O'Connor [O'Connor, Ian]

In the tenth inning of Game 4 of the 2001 World Series, Derek Jeter stepped to the plate with a .067 batting average against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Since the start ...
( Category: Baseball January 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1963-04-28 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

5 “They’re Afraid to Come Out” THE SECOND HALF OF the season for the New York Mets was, generally speaking, a catastrophe. The second half of the season consisted of ...
( Category: State & Local January 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-05 | Author:Morgan, Joe & Lally, Richard [Morgan, Joe & Lally, Richard]

As the runner trying to break up the double play, your assignment is to get to second base as quickly as you can while making a good, hard slide. You’re ...
( Category: Baseball January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-02 | Author:Montville, Leigh [Montville, Leigh]

For Ruth, the 1924 season unfurled as a pleasant continuation of the previous year. He received his certificate—“his diploma,” he called it—as the 1923 MVP on May 14, Babe Ruth ...
( Category: Baseball January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dogwood Hill

13 The basketball game didn’t work as an effective stress reducer. Aidan was as edgy and off-kilter after the game as he had been before they’d played. Oh, he’d worked ...
( Category: Family Life January 7,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Jane Leavy

( Category: Baseball January 6,2015 )
epub | | | Author:Jimmy Breslin

ocher. In return, Leo went to the taxicab that took King away from the old Polo Grounds ballpark each night and left a note saying “You are a stumbling drunken ...
( Category: Baseball January 6,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Derek Jeter [Jeter, Derek]

Mr. October When I was growing up, everybody knew Reggie Jackson: Mr. October. I’ve been lucky enough to know him personally since I was eighteen. Reggie is one of the ...
( Category: Celebrations & Events December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-26 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

But these details do not touch the main point—Holway’s premise is false because he accepts the conventional mythology about long sequences. He believes that streaks are unbroken runs of causal ...
( Category: Baseball December 27,2014 )