Sunday, June 25, 1944, Comiskey Park in Chicago, Game 2 of a doubleheader between the White Sox and Indians, bottom of the 5th inning and Thurman Tucker… Read more “A Moment in Time – 6/25/44”
Category: Yankees
A Moment In Time – 5/14/47
Wednesday, May 14, 1947, Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Dodgers visiting the Reds, bottom of the 2nd inning with the locals up 1-0 and Reds’ All-Star SS Eddie Miller… Read more “A Moment In Time – 5/14/47”
Pastime Portraiture: Lou Gehrig
Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Tuesday, May 2, 1939 (79 years ago today), and a resigned yet calm Lou Gehrig relaxes at the edge of the Yankees dugout… Read more “Pastime Portraiture: Lou Gehrig”
A Moment in Time – 9/19/61
Tuesday, September 19, 1961, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and the Yankees are in town for a late season twi-night doubleheader. While the Orioles were at 88… Read more “A Moment in Time – 9/19/61”
Dodger Stadium’s First Championship
In honor of the Dodgers looking to clinch the World Series tonight in Dodger Stadium, a look back at the first World Series clinched at Chavez Ravine, Dodgers vs… Read more “Dodger Stadium’s First Championship”
A Moment In Time – 7/27/58
Rocky Colavito of the Cleveland Indians “lets out a howl” (as the Sporting News put it) as he crosses home plate after crashing a grand slam in… Read more “A Moment In Time – 7/27/58”
Yankee Stadium Yogi
Returning to my blog after a long absence, but I’ll keep it short and sweet – on this day of memorials to the great Yogi Berra, a… Read more “Yankee Stadium Yogi”
Hal Smith: Bucs Bridesmaid, World Series Hero
What a moment! Roberto Clemente and Dick Groat celebrate as the Pirates’ Hal Smith hits an unbelievably clutch 2-strike, 2-out, 3-run blast off the Yankees’ Jim Coates… Read more “Hal Smith: Bucs Bridesmaid, World Series Hero”
Radio Broadcast – 9/20/34, Yankees vs Tigers, Navin Field
As part of my ongoing efforts to bring classic baseball moments to the masses, lol, I have been creating videos of classic radio broadcasts and uploading them… Read more “Radio Broadcast – 9/20/34, Yankees vs Tigers, Navin Field”
Burns-Eye Views of Big Time Parks, #7 – Yankee Stadium
In 1937, Ed Burns, a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, penned a series of articles on every major league park at the time (15 articles in all,… Read more “Burns-Eye Views of Big Time Parks, #7 – Yankee Stadium”
Behind the Bag 