Dr. Harvey Frommer On Sports

Coming in fall 2007 YANKEE CENTURY AND BEYOND - an updated and enhanced version of my book A YANKEE CENTURY. Look for it where all Yankee ...

It's not what one might call ideal baseball weather in many parts of the United States. In fact, reading and reviewing baseball books wi...

COMING FALL 2007 FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING: BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG AND THE 1927 NEWYORK YANKEES, THE GREATEST BASEBALL TEAM EVER. Harvey ...

April 15, 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the breaking of the color line by Jackie Robinson (and Branch Rickey). And rightly so Major Lea...

The Book Review: Even the nearly 600 foot winding driveway that leads to my home is becomingmore and more bearable as winter's bad weath...

STAT BOOK TREATS FOR ALL: The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and More Facts, figures, factoids, tables, charts, numbers . . .if all of thes...

FROM HARVEY FROMMER COMING FALL 2007 -- FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING: BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG AND THE 1927 NEW YORK YANKEES, BASEBALL'S GREA...

BOOK REVIEWS Spring time is when baseball books come in a rush - crowding book shelves in stores, competing for attention in the media, arri...

HARVEY FROMMER'S FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING: BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG AND THE GREATEST TEAM IN BASEBALL HISTORY, THE 1927 NEW YORK YANKEES ...

A range of individuals made up the 1927 roster of the New York Yankees. The average age was 27.6. All white, they came from diverse backgrou...

A sure sign that the hot stove league is in full flower is the appearance of "The Hardball Times Baseball Annual" (ACTA Sports, 3...

THE BOOK REVIEW The idea was rare, simple if a bit macabre - a book about how many former major league baseball players met their fate. Or a...

There was the sad news today out of Downers Grove, Illinois that three time All Star hurler Johnny Sain passed away. He had paired with Warr...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mickey Mantle's 1956 triple crown year as well as the 75th anniversary of his birth "Mickey Ma...

After slipping to third in 1959, the Yankees were back in the World Series again in 1960. The competition was Pittsburgh. The Pirates won th...

BUCKY F----ING DENT On the 28th anniversary of that legendary shot..

It was Sunday baseball at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn before 33,813, standing room only. Yankees against Dodgers, Game Four, World Series, the ...

The words and phrases are spoken and written day after day, year after year - generally without any wonderment as to how they became part of...

The news just a bit before the Labor Day weekend of 2006 that Charlie Wagner had passed brought a touch of sadness to Fenway Nation. A fixtu...

The recent ground breaking for a new Yankee Stadium to be ready for business in 2009 led your faithful scribe to muse on the one that ha...