Baseball Coach Youman Wilder kept an eye on his baseball players when ICE agents came calling at Riverside Park recently. ( Photo: Courtesy Youman Wilder) A Conversation with the Courageous UWS Baseball Coach Who Stood Up to ICE Tucked between the Hudson River, a dog run, basketball courts, and a version of the “Green Monster” (actually part of the... News 21 Jul 2025 | 12:50
Left: Our Lady of Sorrows’ Mets Little League coach. Right: Woman shooting baskets next to the highway. ( Photos: Brian Berger) East River Park Reopens to High Praise & Some Concerns It’s real, it’s beautiful, mostly, and it’s LOUD, in parts, most definitely, if not deafeningly. Say what?! Hold on, let’s... News 02 Jun 2025 | 12:30
Lee Lowenfish has a new book out on the scouts. Photo: Amazon Lifelong Love Of Baseball Yields New Book On The Art Of Scouting Lee Lowenfish is the ultimate baseball historian. He’s written seminal books on America’s pastime for over four decades,... News 03 Apr 2023 | 04:26
Both Mets and Yankees open their seasons on March 30th and both are jockeying to be the dominant baseball team in the Big Apple. Photo: Flickr MLB Season Opens and Mets, Once a Pre-season favorite, have tumbled in comparison to Yanks If only the Yankees and Mets’ 2023 seasons could contain as much intrigue and sheer drama as the off-season did. New York’s... News 27 Mar 2023 | 04:30
Aaron Judge at bat. Photo: Jon Friedman All Rise! Judge Re-signs with Yankees After months of nail-biting and conjecture, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge re-signed with the Bronx Bombers on Dec. 7 for an... News 07 Dec 2022 | 10:35
Derek Jeter bats against the Mets at Citi Field in May 2014. Photo by Matthew D. Britt, via Flickr Always a Yankee Legend How time plays tricks on us all, eh? After all, it seems like only yesterday when a skinny, 20-year-old shortstop from Kalamazoo,... Voices 29 Aug 2021 | 12:27
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