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Scores On This Historic Day: June 12, 2016, The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
June 12, 2016: Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is hosting a Latin Night when 102 people are shot by a single gunman. Of those, 49 died.The shooter was Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old Long Island...
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A Phutile Phoray in Philadelphia
After a rare Friday off, the Yankees had a 2-game weekend series against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. This foray, or should I say "phoray," into Philadelphia was completely phutile,...
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Top 10 Yankee Trades -- Would Cashman Make Them?
From 1923 to 1985, the Major League Baseball trading deadline was June 15. It was Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, who suggested it to...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 16, 17 & 18, 1967, The Monterey Pop Festival
June 16, 1967: The Monterey Pop Festival begins, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The performances came to symbolize the San Francisco-based "Summer of Love," and turned some...
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Have the Yankees Finally Turned the Corner?
Yankee general manager Brian Cashman, normally too much of a coward to do so, met the media yesterday afternoon, at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, temporary home of those pesky Toronto Blue Jays, with the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 16, 1961, Rudolf Nureyev Defects
June 16, 1961, 60 years ago: Rudolf Nureyev, at 23 probably already the most famous male ballet dancer in the world, defects to the West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. The Soviets had heard that he...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 17, 1972, The Watergate Break-In
June 17, 1972: There is a burglary at the offices of the Democratic National Committee, at the Watergate complex on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.Built in stages between 1963 and 1971, the...
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The Revenge of Gary Sanchez
Steve Carlton was the best lefthanded pitcher I've ever seen. I'm not old enough to have watched Sandy Koufax, but I have watched Ron Guidry, Vida Blue, Fernando Valenzuela, Randy Johnson and Tom...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 17, 2015, The Charleston Church Massacre
June 17, 2015: A Bible study at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina is interrupted by a mass shooting. Among the 12 people shot, and the 9 who died, was...
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Yanks Shuffle Out of Buffalo With Sweep of Pesky Blue Jays
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that the 1st live game I saw, at the old Yankee stadium in 1978, was against the Toronto Blue Jays, and that they beat the Yankees, and that the Jays...
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"Full Capacity" Not True for Stadium Or Yanks
This past week, Governor Andrew Cuomo removed all COVID restrictions for New York State, allowing full capacity at New York City's sports venues. As it turned out, that was just a permitted goal, not a...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 19, 1953, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Are...
June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, husband and wife, Americans convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in...
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It Was Good to Be Back, To See Yankees Win
No, I don't know why the image was reversed.Yesterday, for the 1st time in 529 days -- since January 6, 2020, a period that included the COVID-19 protocols, recovery from my 1st hip replacement...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame the Atlanta Thrashers for Moving to Winnipeg
June 21, 2011, 10 years ago: The Atlanta Thrashers announce they are moving, becoming the new Winnipeg Jets.The Thrashers were an expansion team that began play in the 1999-2000 season. In 2006-07,...
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Third Triple Play's the Charm as Yanks Beat A's
Today is the first day of Summer. And the Major League Baseball season is now 44 percent in the books. It looked for a while like the Yankees were sure to make the Playoffs. Then, sure not to.Now, who...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 22, 1938, Joe Louis Knocks Out Max Schmeling
June 22, 1938: Joe Louis, Heavyweight Champion of the World, steps into the ring at the original Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, under temporary lights -- The Stadium will not have permanent lights until...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 22, 1941: The Nazis Invade the Soviet Union
June 22, 1941, 80 years ago: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, breaking the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty that the countries had signed nearly 2 years earlier.It was called...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 22, 1969, Judy Garland Dies
June 22, 1969: Judy Garland dies in London, in a house she was renting for a nightclub run in the city. She was 47 years old. The cause was an overdose of barbiturates, and she had battled drug...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 22, 1986, Diego Maradona's "Hand of God"
June 22, 1986: A World Cup Quarterfinal match is played between England and Argentina, at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. In the 51st minute, Argentina's star, Diego Maradona, slaps the ball with...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 25, 1950, The Korean War Begins
June 25, 1950: Troops of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- a.k.a. North Korea, a Communist nation, and by no means democratic or a republic -- cross the the parallel of 38th degrees north...
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