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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Remembering Bob Sheppard

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Back in the late 1980s on assignment for “Yankees Magazine,” a stint I held down for almost 18 years, I entered the tiny public address boot...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Book Review: “The First Fall Classic,” Heroes & Ballyhoo,” Ron Darling’s “The Complete Game” and more . . .

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The economy is bad. The complaints abound that book publishing is in trouble. All kinds of other media seems to be parading to center stag...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Harvey Frommer Sports Book Review

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  " A Game Plan for Life " by John Wooden (Bloomsbury, $25.00, 208 pages) is all about as its sub-title proclaims the power of men...
Friday, October 16, 2009

The Book Review: “100 Ranger Greats” and Other Worthies

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Many sports books keep coming down the pike, some worthy, some not so worthy, all with some interest to both the casual fan and also to the ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

NY Yankees ’27 World Champions

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A lot of hype and hoopla surrounds the 2009 World Series especially as it swirls around the Yankees of New York - - an odds on ...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

“Soldier Field” and “The Machine”

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The words on the back cover are mine: “Soldier Field is a true page-turner. Liam T.A. Ford covers all the bases in this in-depth narrativ...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Collision Course: Red Sox versus Yankees

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It has been said that those who forget the past will somehow always be re-living it, or words to that effect. Here we are in 2009 - and it...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Lou Gehrig (From the Vault)

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“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” With Derek Jeter a lock to pass the all-time Yankee hit mark set by Lou Geh...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

From New York Yankee September Pasts

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Whenever the month of September comes around, thoughts turn to BUCKY DENT'S HOME RUN – October 2, 1978 and THE BOSTON MASSACRE, Septembe...
Monday, August 24, 2009

New York Yankees QUIZ (Part I)

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Love them or hate them - the Yankees are always in the news, always on the minds of baseball fans. They get the "ink" they deserve...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Babe Ruth Passes

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Coming back to "the House That Ruth Built" for the final time on June 13, 1948 to have his uniform number 3 retired, to help celeb...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

HARVEY FROMMER ON SPORTS (from the vault) THE HARMONICA INCIDENT:

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AUGUST 20,1964 (Flashback) Despite a string of four straight pennants, the Bronx Bombers were a bust throughout much of the 1964 season. Yog...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Redux - Red Sox Vs Yankees: the Great Rivalry:

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You do remember Don Zimmer being thrown down by Pedro, A-Rod cursed, the chants of "1918" and worse. This weekend they will ...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Baseball Names - and How They Got That Way! Part XI

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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...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Book Review: “Cooperstown Confidential,” “Fighting Words”

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It never fails to amaze me as a reviewer now of thousands of baseball books to my credit how many different takes, slants, insights into the...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Amazing "Acela Club" at Citi Field, New Home of the NY Mets

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Acela Club Tiers 1 (cr. Marc Levine) If there were a Hall of Fame for ball park restaurants, Acela Club at Citi Field located down the left ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

From The Trunk "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, The Farewell Speech"

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It was Yankees versus Senators on July 4, 1939, a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. Those in attendance numbered 61,808, and most of them had ...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

FROM THE TRUNK: Tales from NBA Draft history

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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...
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Dr. Harvey Frommer
Harvey Frommer, A noted oral historian and sports journalist, Harvey Frommer has written many sports books, including timed to 2012 and the 100th anniversary - -"Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox." His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, USA Today, Men's Heath, The Sporting News, Bleacher Report, and of course, this site, among other venues and publications. FROMMER SPORTSNET (syndicated) reaches a readership in the millions and is housed on Internet search engines for extended periods of time. on Twitter: http://twitter.com/south2nd on Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?locale=en_US on the Web: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frommer Dr. Frommer is the Official Book Reviewer of Behind the Bombers Online (BehindtheBombers.com) *Autographed copies of Frommer books are available .
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