The NY Sports Day Interview: Gary Carter
Editors Note: This interview was conducted on August 4, 2004 and NYSD is reprinting it after the passing of Gary Carter today. Back in 1989, I was a freshman in college and went to an early April game...
View ArticlePigs Finally Fly: The Mets Get Their First No-Hitter
A popular saying to describe something very unlikely to occur is “that will happen when pigs fly.” Until last Friday night the Mets had never had one of their pitchers, a group that included such...
View ArticleFoley’s NY Pub & Restaurant Renamed “Chipper’s” in Honor of Retiring Atlanta...
In acknowledgement of his Hall of Fame career and great performances against the New York Mets over the past two decades, Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant (18 West 33rd St.) will rename itself Chipper’s...
View ArticleSportsbeat – 9/10/12
The Mets showed class by honoring Chipper Jones with a ceremony that was held in their press conference room before the start of the Braves’ last visit to Citi Field this year. Jones talked about how...
View ArticleSports Beat “Good beginning for Barclays Center”
It has been a busy first month for the Barclays Center as there have been concerts (Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand), three pre-season Nets games, and a Golden Boy Promotions boxing card last Saturday night...
View ArticleSports Beat “The Wright Decision”
David Wright’s productive 2012 season was a rare bright spot for Mets fans. With one year remaining his current pact with the Mets, David picked a good time to finally feel at home at Citi Field, a...
View ArticleOptimism again for NY Mets with another season home opening win
Perhaps when the New York Mets opened the 2013 season at Citi Field Monday afternoon they resembled teams of the past. One could say the 1982-83 teams at Shea Stadium are comparable, significant,...
View ArticleMo Blows Save, Mets Win
New York – The Subway Series with the two New York baseball teams always has a flair for dramatics and Tuesday night in Flushing, with Mariano Rivera making his last appearance at Citi Field it was...
View ArticleStars Shine At Citi
The prelims were over and it was time for the main event. The 2013 All Star Game, the 84th Mid-Summer Classic since a sportswriter in Chicago named Arch Ward brainstormed the idea in 1933, was met with...
View ArticleSports Beat – Defending Bobby V
Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine stirred things up when he complained that the Yankees did not reach out to their community in the days following September 11, 2001. There is little argument that...
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McDonald: Remembering My Friend Bill Shannon
(Article Originally Published 10/26/10. Photo by Dave Freeman taken at Shephard’s Place at Yankee Stadium in 2009) Back in 2007, on a random night at Shea Stadium, I got into a conversation after the...
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N.Y. Stadiums Featured In ‘Ballpark’ Book
BALLPARK: Baseball in the American City is the highly-anticipated and much-acclaimed new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Goldberger. Unlike any book ever written, Ballpark captures the...
View ArticleTen Years Later, 9/11 Remembered at Citi Field
Flushing, NY -The lilting strains of a clear female voice singing “God Bless America” was heard throughout Citi Field as scenes of players on many major league teams standing at attention were shown on...
View ArticleSportsbeat 02/08/11
Ross Greenburg, the former president of HBO Sports, can be proud of the fact that the last sports documentary made under his aegis, Namath, a 90-minute look at the life pro football’s first rock star,...
View ArticleThe NY Sports Day Interview: Gary Carter
Editors Note: This interview was conducted on August 4, 2004 and NYSD is reprinting it after the passing of Gary Carter today. Back in 1989, I was a freshman in college and went to an early April game...
View ArticlePigs Finally Fly: The Mets Get Their First No-Hitter
A popular saying to describe something very unlikely to occur is “that will happen when pigs fly.” Until last Friday night the Mets had never had one of their pitchers, a group that included such...
View ArticleFoley’s NY Pub & Restaurant Renamed “Chipper’s” in Honor of Retiring Atlanta...
In acknowledgement of his Hall of Fame career and great performances against the New York Mets over the past two decades, Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant (18 West 33rd St.) will rename itself Chipper’s...
View ArticleSportsbeat – 9/10/12
The Mets showed class by honoring Chipper Jones with a ceremony that was held in their press conference room before the start of the Braves’ last visit to Citi Field this year. Jones talked about how...
View ArticleSports Beat “Good beginning for Barclays Center”
It has been a busy first month for the Barclays Center as there have been concerts (Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand), three pre-season Nets games, and a Golden Boy Promotions boxing card last Saturday night...
View ArticleSports Beat “The Wright Decision”
David Wright’s productive 2012 season was a rare bright spot for Mets fans. With one year remaining his current pact with the Mets, David picked a good time to finally feel at home at Citi Field, a...
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