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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

October Baseball


THE YANKEES HAVE ADVANCED TO THE 2007 PLAYOFFS!



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Thursday, March 15, 2007

1996 Yankees

The Yankees dynasty was born in 1996 with an upset of the then defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves. The Yankees did not have the team they currently have, and baseball was different 11 years ago.
Listed below are events from around the news in 1996, my, has times changed since then...

Yankees Events:
The Yankees' only star player was first baseman Wade Boggs, and he was a singles hitter.
Derek Jeter wins the Rookie of the Year award.
Dwight Gooden throws a 2-0 no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners and faces sluggers Edgar Martinez, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning.
The Yankees ace was Jimmy Key.
Don Mattingly was still playing baseball.
Mariano Rivera was the set-up pitcher.
Joe Torre manages the Yankees for the first time, wins a World Series (first in his professional career as both manager and player), and wins the Manager of the Year Award.

Baseball Events:
Roger Clemens was still with the Red Sox.
The Milwaukee Brewers were an American League team.
Albert Pujols was in middle school.
Ken Griffey Jr. was the "one" to break Roger Maris' record of 61 home runs.
Sammy Sosa had never hit over 40 home runs in a season.
Steroids was not an issue, instead it was the recovery of the strike of 1994.
Baseball cards did not feature jerseys or bat pieces for another two years.
Not a single baseball stadium was named after a corporation.
The Diamondbacks and Devil Rays were not in existence and the Rockies and Marlins were only two years old. The Detroit Tigers were in the Al East; they lost 109 games.

World Events:
The Unabomber is arrested.
TWA flight 800 blows up off the coast of Long Island.
A Scottish sheep named Dolly is successfully cloned.
The 1996 Summer Olympics are interrupted by the Centennial Park bombing.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana get divorced.
President Bill Clinton wins a second term in office.
Tupac is shot dead.

Technological Events:
No one had a flat screen, or plasma TV, as they were not invented yet.
CD's have yet to replace the 3.5" floppy disks.
Dial-up was the most used Internet connection.

Miscellaneous Events:
Braveheart wins Best Picture
First class stamp was $0.32.
Major League Soccer has their inaugural season.
Nintendo 65 is launched.
The average price of gas was $1.28/gallon unleaded regular.
New Coke was changed to Classic Coke.
The only reality TV show was Cops
The author of this blog had just started puberty.

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Friday, February 09, 2007

Hank Bauer
1922-2007


Hank Bauer (pictured left of Stengle), a key component of seven New York Yankees World Series championship clubs, died Friday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 84.
Bauer played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues from 1948-61, his first 12 with the Yankees. A three-time All-Star outfielder, he batted .277 with 164 home runs and 703 RBIs in 1,544 games, and helped the Yankees to nine American League pennants.

A strong runner and fielder with a powerful arm, Bauer became an accomplished Major League manager after his playing career. He earned Manager of the Year honors at the helm of the Baltimore Orioles in 1964 and 1966, including one World Series title.

Bauer was traded to the Kansas City Athletics as part of a deal that brought Roger Maris to the Yankees prior to the 1960 season. While Bauer's association with the club ended, his friendships with many Yankees teammates endured for decades.

Bauer guided the Kansas City Athletics in 1962 and 1963, then moved on to spend five years with the Orioles before finishing his managerial career with Oakland in 1969. In eight seasons as a big-league manager, Bauer compiled a record of 594-534.

The youngest of nine children, Bauer was born to a blue-collar background in East St. Louis, Ill., and went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Battling malaria in the South Pacific, Bauer earned 11 campaign ribbons, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts in 32 months of combat.

His gruff military background translated to his playing career, which delivered him to the Yankees for a 1948 debut.

As a tough presence in the clubhouse, Bauer is said to have chastised a young Mickey Mantle for not running out a ground ball, yelling, "Don't fool with my money" -- a reference to the regularity with which Bauer cashed Yankees World Series checks.

Indeed, many of Bauer's most memorable moments with the Yankees came in October. Bauer contributed a game-saving catch to rob the Giants' Sal Yvars in the 1951 Fall Classic, and set a World Series record with a 17-game hitting streak from 1956-58.


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Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Top Five: Homeruns

For the next five weeks, Bronx Bloggers will release a top five list of events and players in Yankees history.
These lists are:
Recent Home Runs
Recent Plays
Underrated Players
Overrated Players
Top Lineups

Today I release the top five home runs in recent Yankees history.
Enjoy...

#5
Derek Jeter
Yankees vs Orioles
1996 American League Championship Series
October 9, 1996


The Yankees trailed the Orioles 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning when shortstop Derek Jeter hit a deep fly ball to right field. Right fielder Tony Tarasco moved near the fence and appeared "to draw a bead on the ball" when the then-12 year old Maier reached over the fence separating the stands and the field of play 9 feet below and deflected the ball into the stands. While baseball fans are permitted to catch (and keep) balls hit into the stands, if "a spectator reaches out of the stands, or goes on the playing field, and touches a live ball", spectator interference is to be called.
Right field umpire Rich Garcia immediately ruled the play a home run, tying the game at 4-4, despite the protest of Tarasco and Orioles manager Davey Johnson. The Yankees would win the game in the eleventh inning on Bernie Williams' walk-off home run. The Orioles maintained their protest of the Maier play after the conclusion of the game, but their protest was denied by American League President Gene Budig because judgment calls cannot be protested.

#4
Jim Leyritz
Yankees vs Braves
1996 World Series
October 23, 1996


In Game 4 of the 1996 World Series against the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Leyritz hit a 3 run home run to left center in the 8th inning to tie the game at 6 and cap an improbable 6-0 Yankee comeback which did not begin until the 6th inning. This home run came off Atlanta closer Mark Wohlers and led to the Yankees eventually winning the game 8-6 in 10 innings with future Hall of Famer Wade Boggs 2-out bases loaded RBI walk off pitcher Steve Avery providing the winning margin in the top of the 10th. After the Yankees lost the first two games of the series at home, and narrowly winning Game 3 in Atlanta, this game appeared to be going to the Braves, which would have given them a significant 3-1 series advantage. Instead, Leyritz home run shifted the game's momentum and the Yankees won to tie the series 2-2.

#3
Tino Martinez
Yankees vs Diamondbacks
2001 World Series
October 31, 2001


The Arizona Diamondbacks had taken a 2-1 lead in the World Series and a 3-1 lead going into the ninth inning with their closer on the mound.
Things were going well when Byung-Hyun Kim took the mound and send the D'Backs one game closer to a title.
Things went well....until Kim threw the pitch.
Tino Martinez, oh-fer the series, drilled the first pitch he saw over the right field wall for a game-tying two-run home run with two outs.
The Yankees won the game in the tenth inning and tied the series at 2.
Was it a fluke shot, a once-on-a-lifetime event? Keep reading...

#2
Scott Brosius
Yankees vs Diamondbacks
2001 World Series
November 1, 2001


Due to the World Trade Center attack, commissioner Bud Selig pushed the season back a week sending the World Series into November for the first time in MLB history.
Almost a mirror image of the game from the night before, the Yankees entered the ninth inning down by two runs and two outs with an unlikely hero at the bat and Kim on the mound.
Scott Brosius hit the second pitch he saw from Kim deep into the sky and over the fence for an improbable home run to tie the game and send the Yankees into yet another extra inning victory and gave the Yankees a 3-2 series advantage heading to Arizona for the finale.


#1
Aaron Boone
Yankees vs Red Sox
2003 American League Championship Series
October 16, 2003


The Yankees and Red Sox each had successful seasons, both reaching the playoffs, and both reaching the championship. Both playing close to 170 games; but game seven of the championship series is the one game to define their season.
The Red Sox had taken a commanding 5-3 lead with their ace Pedro Martinez on the mound and some clutch magic in the air.
The Yankees had tied the game at 5 going into extra innings and a gritty, gutty, and tense series wired down to one pitch.
It was the 11th inning. Tim Wakefield, the master knuckleballer was facing the defensive replacement Aaron Boone. Wakefield's first pitch was quickly changed into history.

"Although the Boston Red Sox and the fans throughout New England would tell you they were five outs away in the 8th inning, leading by three...as BOONE HITS IT TO DEEP LEFT, THAT MIGHT SEND THE YANKEES TO THE WORLD SERIES! BOONE THE HERO OF GAME 7!!!"--Joe Buck

The Yankees had reached the 2003 World Series behind Boone's home run against the Red Sox.

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