autographed Sgt. Slaughter photo from my collection, obtained at an appearance during a Somerset Patriots game in 2005 Robert Remus, better known professional wrestler Sgt. Slaughter, is scheduled to appear at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark on Thursday, June 21st to meet fans, sign autographs and take pictures before after the Newark Bears [...]
Mets.com is hosting an auction of a variety of game-used, autographed items from Johan Santana‘s no-hitter. While Santana’s uniform is headed to the Hall of Fame and the pitching rubber that was dug up after the game is destined for the Mets museum, there are still a couple of museum-worthy pieces that are up for [...]
Holy Buckets! Did anyone else ever think That Clay Person would emerge as a possible Ace for the Boston Red Sox? OK, way back when he threw the no-hitter in his rookie year, we all had high hopes–but then we dealt with 4 seasons of “just on the brink of brilliance and destruction, depending on [...]
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor You can see Bryce Harper at the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention. On Topps baseball cards, that is. On Wednesday, the company unveiled its plans for the NSCC, which is set for Aug. 1-5 in Baltimore and they will include a pair of wrapper redemption programs featuring an [...]
On Friday, June 15th, top players from the New York City Public Schools Athletic League will compete against top players from the Catholic High School Athletic Association in the NYC Mayor’s Cup Baseball All-Star Game. Players from all five boroughs – including some who were selected in Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft last week – will take [...]
At least for one night, almost everything seemed to go the Mets’ way. It will be up to R.A. Dickey to turn Tuesday night’s Mets victory into the beginning of a winning streak. (Photo credit: Paul Hadsall) Sure, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Lucas Duda had problems tracking fly balls against Tropicana Field’s roof in the early [...]
This is the coolest re-enactment of the famous moment from Game Six of the 1986 World Series I’ve seen since somebody recreated it in Nintendo’s RBI Baseball video game. [via MetsBlog] Filed under: new york mets Tagged: Baseball, Bill Buckner, Boston Red Sox, Game 6, Mookie Wilson, new york mets, World Series
At 61 games into the season, the Boston Red Sox are now 3 games UNDER .500, and 6.5 games behind the now tied Tampa Bay and Skanks…Oh, and did I mention, DEAD LAST in the AL East? AGAIN? Or maybe I should stay STILL, since there was only ONE DAY in the last 2.5 months [...]
