Jeff Nelson The honorees for the 42nd Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers (23rd Street at West Side Highway) in New York City on Monday night, March 7, 2022 benefiting AHRC New York City Foundation, have been announced today. These are this year’s award recipients: ...
Read More »Topps/ESPN Card Sets Release Today With 30for30 ‘Once Upon A Time in Queens’ Debut
in a special collaboration with ESPN and ESPN Films, Topps has created the 30-for-30 “Once Upon a Time in Queens” commemorative trading card set. Following the documentary’s scheduled release dates/times (tonight and Wednesday night), this is a four-part trading card set that captures the 1986 New York Mets championship season ...
Read More »‘Extra Innings from 9/11’ Connects Tragedy To Today
Those of us who lived through 9/11, especially in New York, have our own memories of the day and is aftermath. For many like me, just being in Manhattan that morning, living through the uncertainty of how I’d get back home to New Jersey (via foot, ferry, train, and eventually ...
Read More »HBO To Debut ‘Extra Innings From 9/11’ on HBO Max Sept. 11
Watching the original Nine Innings From Ground Zero on its first broadcast in 2004 on HBO was a chilling experience, the horrors of 9/11 still raw and fresh in the minds of most Americans. For sports fans, the connection between the teams in the regions most affected by the day’s ...
Read More »Voit, Urshela, Conforto, Pudge, Carson, Naeher Earn Munson Honors
Michael Confoto (credit: Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken, NJ, USA) A star-studded lineup will be honored virtually at the 41st Annual Thurman Munson Awards ceremony to benefit AHRC New York City Foundation on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, and these are the honorees: New York Yankees standouts Luke Voit and Gio Urshela, New York Mets outfielder Michael Conforto, Hall of Famer catcher Pudge Rodriguez, New York ...
Read More »Valentine, White, Leyritz Plus ‘69 Amazin’ Mets Kranepool, Swoboda, Shamsky Free Live Virtual Q&A’s Weds, Thurs
As baseball prepares for its return to Yankee Stadium and Citi Field this month, some of the standouts from years past take the virtual stage when former Mets Subway Series manager Bobby Valentine, currently A.D. at Sacred Heart University, former Yankees hard-hitting outfielder Roy White, Yankees postseason standout Jim Leyritz, ...
Read More »A ‘Catch’ For the Ages
There have been a few books released this year on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Miracle Mets: Wayne Coffey’s outstanding They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, Art Shamsky’s well-received After The Miracle and Rod Gaspar’s less heralded but by all accounts fine Miracle Met among them. ...
Read More »Pivotal ‘85 N.Y. Baseball Season Remembered In New Book
When great New York baseball seasons are recalled, the years 1927, 1961 and 1998 (Yankees), 1954 (Giants), 1955 (Dodgers), 1969 and 1986 (Mets) are among those frequently mentioned. But when it comes to the Yankees and Mets, the first year that both teams were truly first-rate at the same time ...
Read More »Steiner Sports Holiday Gift Credo: “Think Inside The Box!”
Steiner Sports founder Brandon Steiner has a new holiday gift credo which is: “Think inside the box!” The sports collectibles company is offering 11, amazing, 10-item “Ultimate Fan Gift Boxes” for Christmas and Hanukkah gift-giving which are sure to have sports fans wrapped up in enthusiasm: the New York Yankees, ...
Read More »Piazza to Make History Again with TOPPS BUNT Digital Signatures This Weekend
The TOPPS Company and their fast-growing digital platform, TOPPS MLB BUNT today announced that New York Mets Hall of Famer Mike Piazza will make history this Saturday, when he conducts a real time customized digital autograph signing this weekend as part of The Baseball Card Show in Atlantic City, New ...
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