“Best Wishes,  Fritz Peterson #19″  That’s how my copy of Mickey Mantle Is Going To Heaven starts.  It is a book written by a famous former New York Yankee pitcher.  He was an All-Star.  He won 20 games once.  He played with Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle – legends, not just Yankees legends, but baseball [...]

One play does not define a career, especially in the case of Tommy Henrich. The five-time All-Star was one of the mainstays of a Yankee dynasty from yesteryear but is always remembered for a play in which he actually struck out swinging for the apparent last out.
It came during the ninth inning of Game 4 [...]

Everybody is asking who is that masked man wearing No. 13 in New York Yankee pinstripes?  That can’t be Alex Rodriguez can it?  Isn’t he the guy who has proverbially choked in the playoffs since coming to the Bronx?
Well look again.  It is a new A-Rod.  One who is delivering timely hits in run scoring [...]

BRONX, NY – With New Yankee Stadium set to open Friday with a game against the Cubs, the Bombers ran into an unusual problem as the Ghosts of Old Yankee Stadium have refused to make the trip across the street to the new ballpark.
“This is a problem,” said Yankee COO Lonn Trost. “If they don’t [...]

Coming into spring training Brett Gardner has something to prove to the Yankee brass.  He has to prove that he belongs on the field playing at the crown jewel position of the New York Yankees.  The same position that has seen such past greats as Earl Combs, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Bobby Murcer, and Bernie [...]

How many guys want to leave the game the way Mike Mussina is apparently going to leave it? Ted Williams hit a home run in his last game – his last at bat too, I believe. He proved he could’ve still played a little bit longer. Todd Zeile, certainly no Ted Williams (he’d admit that [...]

How many guys want to leave the game the way Mike Mussina is apparently going to leave it? Ted Williams hit a home run in his last game – his last at bat too, I believe. He proved he could’ve still played a little bit longer. Todd Zeile, certainly no Ted Williams (he’d admit that [...]

Sunday night, the New York Yankees and their adoring fans bid farewell to their precious surroundings, although for some, the book will never close on Yankee Stadium. The ‘ghosts’ that reside there from the great teams of Yankees past will make the short trip to the brand new ballpark across the way.
Monument Park will be [...]