Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More

MAY 4, 1949, 75 YEARS AGO: A plane crash wipes out what might have been the best soccer team in the world at the time. Torino Football Club, based in the Northern Italian city that the Eng...

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MAY 4, 1944, 80 YEARS AGO: The St. Louis Browns baseball team has its finest hour. And it has nothing to do with their winning their only Pennant that season. The St. Louis Browns, playing in ...

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The 1st full month of the Major League Baseball season is over. The Yankees have done better than I had expected, but still not good enough. Two nights ago, they began a road series against ...

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Last night, the Denver Nuggets, the defending NBA Champions, beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-106 at the Ball Arena (formerly the Pepsi Center) in Denver. The Nuggets thus won the Playoff seri...

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Is it me? It is the fact that I'm not trying to do a writeup after every game, and sticking to once a week, the reason the Yankees haven't gotten off to the kind of slow start they got off to ...

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Inside the M25, the highway that serves as London's "capital beltway," there are 14 soccer teams in England's Football League. Two of these are in North London, 4.7 miles apart: Arsenal Footbal...

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APRIL 27, 1994, 30 YEARS AGO: The Republic of South Africa ends apartheid by holding its 1st all-races general election. Lines of people miles, and hours, long developed, stunning the world ...

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Chris Chambliss APRIL 26, 1974, 50 YEARS AGO: The New York Yankees trade 4 pitchers away: Fritz Peterson, Steve Kline, Fred Beene and Tom Buskey. They are sent to the Cleveland Indians. Ju...

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APRIL 25, 1924, 100 YEARS AGO: Arthur Lawrence Schallock is born outside San Francisco in Mill Valley, California. In other words, if the M*A*S*H character B.J. Hunnicutt, said to be from Mi...

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APRIL 25, 1974, 50 YEARS AGO: A military coup overthrows the Fascist government of Portugal, ending it after 41 years. Because of the flowers that the soldiers wore in their lapels, it becam...

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Another week, another reason for cautious optimism for the 2024 Yankees. They continued a roadtrip with a 12-4 record, and took on the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Luis Gil allowe...

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APRIL 20, 1999, 25 YEARS AGO: A mass shooting kills 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School, in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado. At the time, it was the deadliest mass sh...

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APRIL 20, 1944, 80 YEARS AGO: Elmer Gedeon dies in action in World War II. He was 1 of 2 Major League Baseball players lost in "The Big One." Elmer John Gedeon was born on April 15, 1917 i...

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APRIL 19, 1954, 70 YEARS AGO: Dr. Fredric Wertham publishes his book Seduction of the Innocent. It turns the world of comic books on its head. Born on March 20, 1895, in Nuremberg, Bavari...

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I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils. Dylan Thomas wrote that. The great Welsh poet died on November 9, 1953, ...

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Prior to World War II, a major league sports team's field boss, its manager, and it's business boss, its general manager, were often the same person. As time went on, this became less common. ...

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APRIL 17, 1999, 25 YEARS AGO: The NFL Draft is held in New York, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden -- formerly known as the Felt Forum, and now as the Hulu Theater. The Draft has had so...

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APRIL 17, 1964, 60 YEARS AGO: The 1st game is played at the William A. Shea Municipal Stadium in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The 55,601-seat stadium, the replacemen...

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APRIL 16, 1954, 70 YEARS AGO: Only twice in the history of the Stanley Cup Finals has a Game 7 gone to overtime. They happened within 4 years of each other, and both were won by the Detroit ...

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I don't need reminders of my advancing age. My bones, muscles and joints do that for me, just fine, even after two hip replacements. I certainly don't need news that another member of the fi...

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When I was a kid, the Yankees never, ever lost to the Cleveland Guardians. Of course, when I was a kid, the Yankees never, ever beat the Cleveland Guardians, either. They were known as the C...

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APRIL 15, 1964, 60 YEARS AGO: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opens, carrying U.S. Route 13 over, and under, the Chesapeake Bay, connecting Cape Charles, on the Delmarva Peninsula ("Del-mar...

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The team with baseball's best record, the New York Yankees, played a 3-game series against the team with baseball's worst record, the Miami Marlins, at the new Yankee Stadium. Nestor Cortés...

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  When I was a kid in the 1970s, the Weekly Reader would poll kids of various ages, boys and girls alike, and ask them who their heroes were. O.J. Simpson, a running back who never appeared i...

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APRIL 10, 1934, 90 YEARS AGO: The Chicago Black Hawks win the Stanley Cup for the 1st time, thanks to a spectacular Finals performance by goaltender Charlie Gardiner. He never played again. ...

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