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Yanks Hit 3 Homers to Crown Royals
The Yankees came home last night, and began a 3-game series with the Kansas City Royals, from whom they took 2 out of 3 in Kansas City last week.Michael Pineda started, and brought his A-game: 6 1/3rd...
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Top 10 Athletes From South Carolina
May 23, 1788: South Carolina becomes the 8th State to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and joins the Union.Top 10 Athletes from South CarolinaNo South Carolina-trained football player has...
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Girardi Throws ANOTHER Game Away With Stupid Pitching Changes
Chalk up another loss to Joe Girardi's binder-inspired idiotic pitching changes.True, you can't win if you don't get men on base and then drive them home. And, as they did last week in Kansas City, the...
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Star Wars as Baseball
May 25, 1977, 40 years ago today:Star Wars premieres. Or, as it's officially known now, Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope.May the Fortieth be with you.If Star Wars were a baseball game...Dark...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Toronto -- 2017 Edition
For this coming Thursday through Sunday, the Yankees travel across the U.S.-Canadian border to play away to the Toronto Blue Jays.After 20 years in the wilderness following their 1992 and '93 World...
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Rain Dampens Yankee Momentum
After Tuesday night's game, which the Yankees lost to the Kansas City Royals, 6-2 at Yankee Stadium, I said they needed to score a bunch of runs on Wednesday night.They didn't. They only got 1 more....
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Bob Kuzava, 1923-2017; Ed Mierkowicz, 1924-2017
There were 2 notable deaths in baseball this month, both of them from the Polish-American community of Detroit, best friends from the town of Wyandotte, 1 of them connected to the Yankees.Robert Leroy...
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Gin Rummy Girardi Throws Great Tanaka Start Away
The Yankees started a 3-game series with the Oakland Athletics at Yankee Stadium last night. After the 2 worst starts of his career, Masahiro Tanaka really needed to show the Yankees his previous ace...
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FA Cup-Winning Goalscorers, 1872-2017
This afternoon, Arsenal won the Football Association Cup for a record 13th time, the 3rd time in the last 4 years. The North London giants beat West Londoners Chelsea, winners of the Premier League,...
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Yankees on Arsenal Trophy Win Days, 1930-2017
April 26, 1930: Arsenal win the FA Cup, beating Huddersfield Town of Yorkshire, 2-0 at the original Wembley Stadium, West London. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox, 8-3 at the original Yankee Stadium...
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Jim Bunning, 1931-2017
Jim Bunning was a Hall-of-Famer as a pitcher. As a politician, well, let's just say we were not often in agreement. For this post, I'm going to stick to the facts.James Paul David Bunning was born on...
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CC's Arm, Holliday's Bat Beat A's
Note the Jersey Mike's ad in the background.I think CC would like Jersey Mike's subs.Yesterday, The Arsenal won the FA Cup, the New York Red Bulls beat the New England Revolution (yet another bunch of...
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Judge's Slam Leads Yanks Past A's
Yesterday was a long and busy day. Scheduled for the same 1:00 start as the Yankee game was my sister's party for my niece Mackenzie's 1st birthday, which was this past Tuesday. And she doesn't allow...
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May 29, 1917: Happy 100th Birthday, JFK
May 29, 1917, 100 years ago: John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born at his family's home at 83 Beals Street, in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts.I don't remember either Jack or Bobby Kennedy as a...
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Top 10 Athletes From Rhode Island
May 29, 1788: Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 States to ratify the Constitution, thus gaining true Statehood. Note the 13 stars on the State Flag.Top 10 Athletes from Rhode Island10....
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Top 10 Athletes From Wisconsin
May 29, 1848: Wisconsin joins the Union as the 30th State.Top 10 Athletes from WisconsinAll-Star. Milestone. Number retired. Hall of Fame.Honorable Mention. Harry "Bud" Grant of Superior. We know him...
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Frank Deford, 1938-2017
The man who defined sportswriting, at least at the magazine level, in my youth will get to define it no more.Benjamin Franklin Deford III was born on December 16, 1938 in Baltimore, 3 days after 1960s...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan in Montreal -- 2017 Edition
This Saturday night, the New York Red Bulls cross the U.S.-Canadian border to visit the Montreal Impact.Note: From this point onward, I will be using the French name with the accent mark for the City,...
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Yankees Drop Memorial Day Matinee in Baltimore
Not that long ago, the Yankees dropping a game to the Baltimore Orioles would have been very bad.Now, it's just very embarrassing. After all, going into yesterday's series opener, a Memorial Day...
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Yankees Have Orioles' Number: 21230
It often seems like, when the Yankees score a lot of runs in a game, their next game turns very quiet, and we start to think, "You know, a couple of those runs from last night would feel pretty good...
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