Dr. Harvey Frommer On Sports

The NBA draft is all the rage. Prospects are dissected, analyzed, and compared to heroes of yesteryear. There is the pre-draft camp, the end...

Yankee legends past and present are well represented by publishers this spring. For somewhat more than a hundred dollars a quartette of work...

The 13th of June , 1927, was one of the great testimonial days in the history of New York City. Millions cheered as a ticker-tape parade wel...

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...

Oh, how many times did I watch Darryl Strawberry do his thing especially as a member of the New York Mets. In so many ways he was the most t...

Kirk Radomski was employed in the clubhouse of the New York Mets for a decade. Now in his first book “Bases Loaded” (co-authored by David F...

Sicilian immigrants Giuseppe -- the fisherman -- and Rosalie lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco and raised nine children. Thr...

The avalanche of quality sports books keeps on coming. They arrive in all sizes and shapes, from major publis...

If you like an untold story, and who of us does not, and if you are even a little bit of a sports junky than “Bottom of the Ninth” by Michae...

He was born in Cairo, Georgia on the last day of January in 1919, and died on October 24, 1972 in Stamford, Connecticut. A chilly April 15, ...

“George” by Peter Golenbock I had two chance encounters with George Steinbrenner and both were memorable. I was sitting in his office at Ya...

1927 (last season before the grandstand was extended around past the foul poles) Another season, another opening day. The old Yankee Stadiu...

A Trio of "Sluggers" By The Team of Loren Long & Phil Bildner From Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers/Aladdin Will App...

Back in the day in the late fifties when I was a journalism major at New York University I worked the five P.M. to past midnight shift at Un...

“Bill James Gold Mine,” “Sweet Lou and the Cubs,” “The Fielding Bible,” “Graphical Player” “Tim McCarver’s Diamond Gems” This spring has on...

The sad news of passing of Hall of Famer George Kell at his home in Swifton, Arkansas in his sleep on March 24, 2009 has just come out. The ...

Yankee nick-names have run the gamut from complimentary to embarrassing, from hero worshipping to amusing from over-reaching to on target. H...

Another spring. Another baseball season. Another time for baseball lingo to be spoken, The words and phrases are used and written day after ...

All sizes, all shapes and for all tastes and budgets the spring 2009 parade of books about different aspects of the national pastime keep ...

With spring training underway another sure sign that the 2009 baseball season will soon be with us is the deluge of new books focused on all...