Masahiro Tanaka Struck by Ball as Yankees Take Health Hit
Saturday was the Yankees’ first official summer workout, a routine bit of preparation to start their coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. Instead of an ordinary practice at...
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Baseball’s New Rules: No Spitting, No Arguing, and Lots of Testing
Coronavirus testing every other day for players and coaches. Wet rags for pitchers’ pockets to prevent them from licking their fingers. Masks in the dugout...
Baseball’s Plan: A 60-Game Sprint With Fingers Crossed
There will be no asterisk for the 2020 baseball season because the year itself is an obvious outlier in every way. Whoever wins the World...
63 Years Later, a Confession in a Legendary Yankees Scandal
Joey Silvestri didn’t see all those Yankees file into the Copacabana that night. There were six of them, including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford,...
Fauci, Leading Fight Against Coronavirus, Misses Baseball, Too
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, spends 19-hour days helping to lead the fight against the coronavirus. “I don’t think...
Hank Steinbrenner, the Yankees Owner Who Kept a Guitar in His Office
In his 37 imperious years as the Yankees’ principal owner, George Steinbrenner regularly held meetings with the team’s brain trust at Malio’s, a steakhouse in...
Hank Steinbrenner, Heir to the Yankees, Is Dead at 63
Hank Steinbrenner, who with his brother, Hal, inherited the New York Yankees, one of the most storied and lucrative franchises in sports history, after the...
Take Me Out to the (Backyard) Ball Game
The pigeons are strutting, the leaves in Central Park are budding and the sun is sticking around longer over Manhattan’s canyons. What’s missing from another...
One Hospital’s Last Resort to Protect Doctors From Coronavirus: Yankee Rain Ponchos
When a doctor at one of New York City’s top hospitals arrived for work on Tuesday night, she found the following items in the bag...