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The Hit Men: Jeter Joins A Select Club
September 10, 2009
Derek Jeter lines single to equal Lou Gehrig’s all-time Yankee hit record. After 72 years, Lou Gehrig has company. Gehrig played his last game in 1939, and finished his career with ...Happy Father’s Day, Dad
June 21, 2009
The first college football game ever televised, Waynesburg vs. Fordham in 1939 On a steamy August Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1938, New York right-hander Monte Pearson pitched the first ...Catching a Ball at the New Yankee Stadium
May 17, 2009
I’ve been waiting the past few years to see the new Yankee Stadium. And I’ve been waiting a lot longer—a lifetime—to catch a ball at a game. Friday night I did ...