epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Wilker, Josh

My seventh-grade team lost its first game by a couple points, then lost its second game by a few points, its third game by several, and so on. We would ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Lucas Mann

Two months later, I’m at St. Vincent’s hospital on Seventh Avenue because Dave tried to kill himself but then got too scared and managed to hail a cab before passing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-04 | Author:Bill Madden

STEINBRENNER RAN AFOUL of Bowie Kuhn several more times—and for substantially larger penalties—before the commissioner officially left office at the end of 1984. During an ’83 spring training game in ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins [Matheny, Mike]

I HADN’T BEEN told there would be nine highly touted catchers at Michigan that season—my third unpleasant surprise. That made it all the more gratifying to win the job and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bill Pennington

31 GRUDGE MATCHES ARE RARE and often overstated. When it came to the Yankees and Royals of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no need to exaggerate. The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Gallico

9 “STRIKE OUT YOU BIG GOOF”—IT WAS LOVE! Life went on. Lou gained in stature and ability. His mother kept house for him, and continued to play the role of ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Dawidoff

My new school had been founded as a Latin grammar school in 1660, “For the Breeding Up of Hopeful Youths,” according to its benefactor, a Colonial governor, and only in ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-14 | Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]

TED WILLIAMS, BOBBY DOERR, AND A NEIGHBOR IN FRONT OF WILLIAMS’ CHILDHOOD HOME, SAN DIEGO, CIRCA 1938–39 SIX TED WILLIAMS, JOHN PESKY, AND DOMINIC DIMAGGIO The idea of Ted Williams, ...

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: ...

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 ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Gronkowski, Gordon [Gronkowski, Gordon]

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 ...

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 ...

mobi | | | Author:Jane Leavy

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 ...