From the New York Mets and the magic loogie, to George Costanza's stint in the New York Yankees' front office, New York baseball featured heavily in 'Seinfeld'.
When you spend forty years in any profession, one has an abundance of stories to share. Former MLB player and manager John Gibbons dishes some really fascinating behind-the-scenes stories in his autobiography - Gibby: Tales of A Baseball Lifer.
Finally! The Major League Baseball owners realized that their product was grinding to a dull-stop. Teams were losing their younger fanbases exponentially, year-by-year. In spring training, this year's rule changes have definitively increased the pace of play. Does everyone like them? No, but I like most of them and you probably will too!
So much has to go right for a major league team to play 162 games, win all of their playoff series and then four games in the World Series, against the other league's best team. Even more would have to go right for the Amazin' Mets.
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Anthony Volpe is the new starting shortstop for the New York Yankees, and had an understandably emotional reaction when Aaron Boone told him the good news.
Yankees' legendary slugger Reggie Jackson turned heads in a recent interview with Howard Stern, in which he admitted to "serial" infidelity during his career.
The New York Yankees' franchise is among the elites in professional sports, which makes this story about their players paying for their own Wi-Fi even more odd.
Prior to an 18-year professional baseball playing career that spanned the globe, Yonkers New York native, Brian Sweeney grew up around the fire house. His father was a fireman. The Kansas City Royals pitching coach still reflects on the basic lessons learned from his father and his own fire fighter days, in Clifton Park.
With the new pitch clock in Major League Baseball's spring training, things are speeding up across the league, and a Yankees' pitcher went viral for just that.
The New York Yankees are once again faced with a Spring Training full of questions. The hot-topic: did general manager Brian Cashman do enough to fortify the Bronx Bombers to get by the World Champion Houston Astros.
The New York Yankees will compete for a World Series in 2023, but they are not a perfect team, and these issues will still loom large throughout this season.