“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You can say what you want about Charles Barkley, but the one thing he certainly got right is that athletes are not role models.
Barkley has always been a great quote and an even better pot stirrer.  Back in 1993, while doing a commercial for Nike athletic shoes, Barkley looked into the camera and said, “I [...]

Tale of the Tape: Age 48, from New York, N.Y.
Childhood Heroes: “Joe Namath, Rod Laver, Mickey Mantle.”
Early Tennis Memory: “Playing Tommy Buford – the tournament director’s son – in a 12 & under in Tennessee. I won 6-3, 6-2 in three and a half hours. After he started moon balling me.”

Favorite Movies: “One Flew Over [...]