Covering the past, present and future of the New York Game
Gotham Baseball, the official magazine of the 2012 Mohegan Sun World Baseball & Softball Coaches’ Convention, is proud to announce the release of the 2011=2012 Winter Issue, which includes a complete guide to the event beginning Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 at the spectacular Mohegan Sun Resort Casino in Uncasville, CT.
Former Gotham Baseball scribe Howard Megdal has written a great new book, “Wilpon’s Folly”, but the Mets finances aren’t the only problem now, are they?
Former Yankee prospect Justin Pope has been named the new manager of the Staten Island Yankees.
The Empire State Building and Broadway are two of the most well-known landmarks in the world. Located in between them is the best baseball bar in all the land. Foley’s NY. The Irish bar with a baseball attitude.
People keep telling me that they trust Sandy Alderson. Problem is, I don’t trust his boss.
Wally Backman is deciding whether to accept Triple A managing gig or to consider two offers from MLB cluns to join their respective coaching staffs.
Once upon a time, a scion of a famous publishing family decided to save the New York Mets.
The newspaper industry is in enough trouble these days without printing smear jobs written by “journalists” who have a conflict of interest about the very subject they are writing about. But this past week, the New York Post did just that by publishing Peter J. Nash’s despicable and transparent smear job on deceased baseball memorabilia collector Barry Halper.
For the first four years of his professional career, Sal Maglie wasn’t much of a presence, a prospect or a pitcher. Before he would hang up his spikes, he would be part of New York baseball folklore forever.
I AM a Mets fan and I always will be, regardless of the state of flux the current ownership has created with their incredibly bad decision-making for much of the last three decades.
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