The history of the Yankees in a way no one has ever told it before – by the numbers they wore on their backs.
The Greatest Yankees By Uniform Number is a completely original look at the history of the New York Yankees, not by decades or championships, but through the uniform numbers worn by the players.
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My goal each year is to read at least 30 books. I exceeded my goal in 2025, but it wasn’t easy for a number of reasons…
Continue reading “My Favorite Books Read 2025”I used my award-winning wonderful book, The Least Among Them, (and a few other players) to help me solve this Immaculate Grid.
I got the start today for our baseball team.
I went the first five innings and earned the win. We won 7-4.
I never thought, at 56-years-old, I’d still be playing baseball, and pitching no less.
I am on a wonderful team comprised of the greatest group of men you could imagine. I look forward to every game.
Every game is a joy. Every inning. Every single pitch. It is all wonderful. I’m living a dream.
And dreams are good.
But the best part of it all isn’t a dream.
The best part is that I get to play baseball on the same team alongside my son.
There is nothing better than that.
As I got clobbered on the hills of Pittsburgh on the second half of the marathon in May 2023, I swore that that was my last marathon. I was miserable. I struggled. There is a certain hell that one goes through in the upper miles of a marathon. In that race, my 24th marathon, I’d had it.
I quit marathoning more than a thousand times over the final miles on the unforgiving hills of Pittsburgh.
Only…
I didn’t quit.
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In short, I read a lot in 2024.
In total, I read 42 different books. For me, that’s a great amount. My goal each year is to read 30 books. I well exceeded my goal. I greatly enjoyed most of the books I read. What follows, though, is a list of the 14 books I most enjoyed during my 2024 reading journey listed in the order I completed the books over the course of the year.
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On Christmas Eve, my father gave me the most wonderful set of baseball cards I’ll ever own. These cards are also the most valuable in my collection. “Priceless” is a word used too often, but these cards, individually and as a set, just might fit that description.
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It’s been a busy few weeks.
It’s been a busy few months.
It’s always busy.
And that’s a good thing.
Life is good!
And I’m saving the best news until the end of this article…
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It’s a cold and rainy early April day. It’s the kind of day that makes one not mind spending the day inside.
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I am very happy to announce that FROM COMPTON TO THE BRONX, Roy White’s autobiography (that I wrote with him) was just listed as one of the BEST BASEBALL BOOKS of 2023 in Sports Collector’s Digest.
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