NY Yankees

A luxury box for one game of the first playoff round (euphemistically referred to as the Division Series) has a price tag of $17,500, for the second playoff round (the League Championship Series) a cost of $25,000, and for the World Series a cost of $50,000 for a grand total of ...

Atlanta Braves left hander Mickey Mahler and New York Yankees’ outfielder Reggie Jackson were not pleased tonight. In the Yankees’ half of the fourth inning of a game that the Yankees won, 8-3, Reggie attempted a bunt. No, you read that correctly. Reggie tried to bunt. Of course, the ball went ...

George Steinbrenner, who was at the game, was instrumental in the Yankees obtaining Gossage and Eastwick. The fact that the Lyle won the American League Cy Young Award last season and was a major reason that the Yankees became World Champions did not deter the Yankees’ owner from adding two top ...

The Yankees have had difficulty winning games this spring, even if they are only exhibition games, but today was different, at least for George Steinbrenner. One day before the game against the Mets, the Yankees’ owner said that “We’re at the point where Billy better start buckling down on them or ...

Ralph “Roadrunner” Garr hit a ground ball to the right of Yankees’ reserve catcher Cliff Johnson, who was playing first base. Johnson ranged toward second base, fielded the ball, and threw to pitcher Andy Messersmith, who was running over to cover first base. Johnson’s throw was behind Messersmith, forcing the new ...

The Union Plaza Hotel Sports Book in Las Vegas, Nevada, a legal betting entity, made the defending World Champion New York Yankees the early favorite at 5-7 to win the pennant.

Rawly Eastwick, whom the Yankees signed as a free agent to a five year deal for $1.1 million, told reporters “I’ve never been happier in my life. It’s been a wonderful experience. Everything’s been fabulous. There is no aspect of this spring that I haven’t enjoyed.”

Holtzman was thirty years old when he joined the Yankees, but Steinbrenner has little patience with what he construes as failure and when Holtzman didn’t adjust to his new surroundings immediately, he was sent to the bullpen. Holtzman blasted the Yankees and was never an effective pitcher again.

Gossage’s new teammates said that his stuff was “vicious.” The man who hit three home runs his last three at bats in last year’s World Series and is known to fear no mortal, not even George Steinbrenner, said that “He puts fear in hitters. Hitters just fear him physically.”

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that “The long standing exemption of baseball from the antitrust laws is an established aberration.” The Court concluded that since an error was made, it had to be perpetuated. What arrogant rubbish.