December 2009
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Boone Among Athletes Highlighted in TV Show
Aaron Boone is generally regarded as one of the ‘good guys’ in baseball, and his return to the Major League field in 2009 — even if just for 13 hitless at bats — after open heart surgery (!) in March was one of the great stories in sports.
And, as a Yankees fan, one of my best sports memories is of course his ALCS-winning home run in 2003. We won’t talk about any of...
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NHL Warns of Counterfeits
Around this time of year, you often see a media push by a group with the descriptive acronym CAPS (Coalition to Advance the Protection of Sports logos), warning fans of counterfeit licensed sports merchandise, especially t-shirts and hats. The organization, which is a consortium between the property arms of the four major sports plus the Collegiate Licensing Company, which handles many colleges,...
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Grass Sales Smoking
Baseball, more than any other sport, lends itself to nostalgia. And for many Yankees fans of any age (except perhaps those under 10), whose team has the most distinguished record and tradition over their lifetimes, holding on to a piece of that past means big business for memorabilia dealers.
As the 85-year-old Yankee Stadium served the Yankees for one final season before closing with much...
Shoeless Joe and Charlie Hustle
For years I’ve had something of a fascination with Shoeless Joe Jackson. It’s one of what seem like thousands of sports history related obsessions I’ve harbored since my dad bought me my first pack of Topps cards and the “All Star Baseball” spinner game in 1977. My interest in Shoeless Joe perks up around Hall of Fame selection time, or whenever I research through...