Bill Madden

Hall of Fame inductee Derek Jeter, of the New York Yankees, watches a video during an induction ceremony at the Clark Sports Center at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Derek Jeter immortalized as one of baseball’s all-time greats

September 9, 2021 at 1:18 p.m.

At precisely 3:48 Wednesday afternoon, the Captain, Derek Jeter — toting a hefty Hall-of-Fame resume that included the sixth-most hits (3,465) in history, the most hits (200), runs (111) and...

1989: Tommy John #25 of the New York Yankees pitches during a 1989 season game.

Ex-Yankees pitcher Tommy John diagnosed with COVID, but says ‘I feel good’

January 6, 2021 at 5:53 p.m.

Former Yankees star Tommy John said he is fighting a winning battle against COVID-19 and hopes to make a full recovery. The retired MLB pitcher, 77, confirmed his diagnosis to...

Young pitcher Whitey Ford who is signed to a Kansas City contract, practices with the New York Yankees at their spring training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., March 9, 1950.

Whitey Ford, the Yankees’ famous ‘Chairman of the Board,’ dies at age 91

October 9, 2020 at 4:56 p.m.

Whitey Ford, the cocky and cunning, street-smart lefty who honed his pitching skills on the streets and sandlots of Astoria, Queens and went on to win more games than any...

Tom Seaver, the greatest Met of all time, dies at 75

September 3, 2020 at 11:25 a.m.

The long goodbye has ended. The Mets' "Franchise" is gone. Tom Seaver, the greatest of all Mets who dropped out of public life in March of 2019 after being diagnosed...

Cards’ Ankiel linked to HGH

August 22, 2021 at 12:00 a.m.

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel, baseball's feel-good story of the season, received a 12-month supply of human growth hormone from a Florida pharmacy that was part of a national...

REESE STOOD TALL WHEN IT COUNTED

August 10, 2021 at 8:54 p.m.

The captain is gone, dead at 81, and with him goes the heart of the Boys of Summer of the '40s and '50s. And that's what Pee Wee Reese was--the...

GOSSAGE SKEWERS RYAN

August 11, 2021 at 2:13 a.m.

The pitcher-hitter respect Goose Gossage has for Hall of Fame inductees George Brett and Robin Yount, then and now, is genuine. Surprisingly, the same cannot be said of Gossage and...

WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?

August 11, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

It might as well have been an atomic bomb detonating in the middle of the desert. Arizona owner Jerry Colangelo, who somehow once again got his way to be the...

A NEW YORK BASEBALL STORY

August 19, 2021 at 12:55 a.m.

Only in Yankeeland can the team be in first place in mid-September and all everybody's talking about is the general manager and manager being fired.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

August 18, 2021 at 11:53 p.m.

The gang was all there at the Essex House Tuesday for baseball's version of bread and circuses: Bud Selig, the interim ad infinitum commissioner; Donald (No) Fehr, the anti-Monty Hall;...

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