AT THE END OF THE 2008 SEASON I sat in a seat in the loge level of Shea Stadium. It was a couple of weeks before the last game was to be played at Shea. The shell of as-yet incomplete Citi Field loomed over the wall in right, being busily prepared to take...
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JEFF GREEN, EX-HOYA, from the same rookie class as Kevin Durant, enters the lane on the left side, on the storied floor of Madison Square Garden. He’s racing, in transition, gives a little hitch step near the elbow. He has New York’s Carmelo Anthony backpedaling. Green goes up strong over Anthony, there, on the...
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I WAS NOT GOING TO WRITE about the Boston Marathon. Not about the lives lost and ruined. Not about the courage of the responders. Not about the cowardice of whoever was responsible. All of that and more has become available in abundance in the hours since the bombs went off, when Bostonians along with...
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MY FATHER ONCE SAT next to Kelly Gruber on an airplane. I don’t remember where the plane was headed — my father used to travel a lot for business — but Dad took his seat and there, right next to him, sat the blonde-haired third baseman. Well, ex-third baseman; this was sometime after his...
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WITH BETTER THAN FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND in the stands, and tickets harder to come by than a perfect game, the Blue Jays opened their season last night with a 4-1 loss to Cleveland that sucked the air out of what had been a pretty good party. When the night was yet young, those boisterous thousands...
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JOSE OQUENDO PLAYED SECOND BASE on a good Cardinals team in 1989. The switch-hitting Puerto Rican had come up as a shortstop, drafted by the Mets to play there, but when traded to the Cardinals in ‘85 he found himself blocked at that position by Ozzie Smith. So he did whatever was asked of...
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