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News Source: The Olympia
| about 1 year ago
Derek Jeter won't be playing in October for the first time in his career. The New York Yankees' impressive streak of postseason appearances came to an end. Mike Mussina pitched five shutout innings to earn his 19th win, Jason Giambi homered and the...
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News Source: Bradenton Herald
| about 1 year ago
There's not any sense in going out and continuing to kill myself now, to push myself through anything." Pettitte had an MRI exam on his shoulder earlier this month, revealing no major damage. He won his last start on Sunday night, beating Baltimore...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
The Yankees enter the game one day after officially falling out of contention for the American League playoffs, which they'll miss for the first time since finishing second in the AL East in 1993. New York won the World Series in 1996, 1998, 1999 and...
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News Source: Newsday
| about 1 year ago
Derek Jeter salutes the crowd after the Yankees defeated Baltimore, 7-3, in the last game ever at Yankee Stadium. ( Newsday / Paul J. Bereswill / September 21, 2008) New York City police say they arrested more than a dozen people for stealing pieces...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
Derek Jeter was scratched from the Yankees' game against Toronto because of a sore left hand on Tuesday night. Johnny Damon dropped from first to second and Brett Gardner moved up from ninth to bat leadoff...Jeter was replaced by a pinch runner after...
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News Source: The Indiana Statesman
| about 1 year ago
Yankee Stadium hosted its last game Sunday night as the Yankees defeated the Orioles 7-3. After the bereaved tears had fallen from millions of fans it was accepted that soon the most hallowed ground in all of baseball and maybe sports would be gone...
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News Source: University Daily Kansan
| about 1 year ago
Yankee Stadium is a dump — at least from the outside looking in...Last spring break I made the pilgrimage to “The House that Ruth Built,” fully expecting to get the grand tour and maybe even find a way onto the field, home to 39 American League...
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News Source: The News Journal
| about 1 year ago
Yankee Stadium's sendoff Sunday night was anything but trivial. Some of the biggest stars to wear the pinstripes were on hand for final game in the House that Ruth Built. Years from now, when baseball fans in general and Yankee fans in particular,...
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News Source: Connecticut Post
| about 1 year ago
When will the first brick be removed from The House That Ruth Built?...The Yankees are scheduled to have a closing ceremony for the Stadium in early November with details to be announced. The team's front-office staff is scheduled to vacate the...
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News Source: Salon
| about 1 year ago
et's do a little mailbag about Derek Jeter. Not to pick on letter-writer mboehm for his/her response to "Historic Yankee futility," but he/she represents what I think is a pretty common view in a certain crowd, which is to say contrarians.