If you like baseball, you’re required to love Fenway Park. If you don’t love it, at the very least, you respect it (I’m talking to you, Yankees fans). Hey, it’s the last baseball mecca left other than Wrigley Field. Yankee...
If you like baseball, you’re required to love Fenway Park. If you don’t love it, at the very least, you respect it (I’m talking to you, Yankees fans). Hey, it’s the last baseball mecca left other than Wrigley Field. Yankee...
This is a great old aerial view of Yankee Stadium in 1923, the year it opened. Yankee Stadium in 1923 Source: Stuff Nobody Cares About
Ken Griffey Jr. was just elected to the Hall of Fame, and he deserves some acknowledgement here as one of the greatest players of our generation, if not ever. Here is a series of cool old photos showing The Kid in...
This old photo, taken by John Dominis, shows Mickey Mantle tossing his batting helmet after a bad plate appearance. Yankee Mickey Mantle flinging his batting helmet away in disgust during bad day at bat. (Photo by John Dominis//Time Life Pictures/Getty...
In honor of the late Yogi Berra, here is a list of 9 great quotes, one for each position on the diamond. 1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Wise words of wisdom. Yankees Hall-of-Famer Yogi...
What? Hammerin’ Hank Aaron endorsed smoking cigarettes? Well, I guess everyone did it back then, but look how ridiculously young he looks in the advertisement. Vintage 1960s magazine advertisement, Camel Cigarettes, with sports celebrity endorsement from 28-year-old major league...
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn was a baseball mecca. The Dodgers played there until they moved to Los Angeles in 1958. See this series of photos.
Here’s a cool old photo showing famous New York Yankee and excellent athlete, Lou Gehrig, playing his other sport at Columbia University in 1923. Do you recognize Gehrig? He’s third from the right in the middle row. Group portrait of...
This photo shows two of the greatest baseball players that have ever lived. Ted Williams and Babe Ruth met on July 12th, 1943 in front of 18,000 fans at Fenway Park for Mayor Tobin Field Day to support under-privileged children....
As if Ted Williams needed more cred. This dude was likely the best hitter in the history of baseball AND he was a fighter pilot. Oh, and he served in TWO wars ... World War II and the Korean War....
