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Category: Major Leagues

Major Leagues

A Yankee Fan On Screens Big And Small

Jerry Milaniby Jerry MilaniJuly 20, 2014July 20, 2014

Jim Caveziel has played a legendary golfer (Bobby Jones), has traded hoops time with the likes of John Stockton and others (from his time growing …

Major Leagues

‘Big Papi’ Documentary Debuts on Epix Thursday

Jerry Milaniby Jerry MilaniJuly 16, 2014July 16, 2014

The EPIX Original Documentary, David Ortiz In The Moment, offers baseball fans in and around “Red Sox Nation” a close-up look at Ortiz’s life. The special, produced by Relativity Sports in conjunction with Major League Baseball Productions, traces Ortiz’s path from The Dominican Republic to stardom and lets us into “Big Papi’s” world.

Major Leagues / New York Yankees / Top Story

Yankees Promote Wheeler, Option Solarte

Jerry Milaniby Jerry MilaniJuly 15, 2014

The Yangervis Solarte experiment has hit a detour in the Bronx, as the 26-year-old rookie who got off to such a rousing start for the …

Gotham Classic / New York Yankees

The First MLB Drug Test And The Other Side Of Branch Rickey

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyApril 29, 2014April 29, 2014

Babe Dahlgren, once considered the best fielding first baseman in baseball, was sentenced to a life as a baseball vagabond.

Major Leagues / New York Mets

Travis Turning

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyApril 24, 2014

And what of Travis d’Arnaud, long ranked as the top catching prospect in baseball. Is he the next Buster Posey? Joe Mauer? Or is he more of a Russell Martin type? Or is he something more ominous altogether

Major Leagues / New York Mets / Top Story

(19) Days of Curtis

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyApril 23, 2014April 23, 2014

A .116 batting average is bad, and it only intensifies our fears when it reads as such at the start of the season. And this is all before considering the oh-god-what-have-we-done level of existential terror as the average comes on the heels of the biggest contract the Mets have shelled out for a free-agent position player in some time.

New York Mets

‘Remake’ of Mets Radio Booth is Officially a Mess.

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyJanuary 27, 2014January 27, 2014

The general perception among many Mets fans is when team COO Jeff Wilpon tries to fix a perceived problem, he generally creates a public relations mess in the process, and then blames the media for misconstruing his intentions along the way.

Gotham Classic / New York Mets

QBC 2014: Meet The New Media

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyJanuary 14, 2014

I will be moderating the New Media panel at the upcoming Queens Baseball Convention at McFadden’s at Citi Field on Jan 18 at 12 noon.

Major Leagues / New York Mets

For Mets Fans By Mets Fans: The Queens Baseball Convention

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyDecember 17, 2013

Shannon “Shark” Prior and Keith Blacknick, the pair behind blog site Metspolice.com, have teamed up with Darren Meenan of The 7 Line clothing brand to bring the first ever Queens Baseball Convention (QBC) to McFadden’s bar in Citi Field on January 18.

Gotham Classic / Major Leagues / New York Mets

Gotham Classic: Peas in a Pod; Goldis and Bernazard

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeyNovember 27, 2013April 11, 2025

Remembering the Scott Kazmir and the Willie Randoph firing is just one reason for republishing this story from the archives of Gotham Baseball, you might be surprised at what you read.

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