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Alex Belth

Alex Belth

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

The Boss was a tyrant, but he made Yankees into winners at all costs
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The Boss was a tyrant, but he made Yankees into winners at all costs

In his heyday he was known as many things -- most notably, as a bad loser -- but there is no denying that he made the Yankees into a winner. He was the

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Summer in the City

The guy looked at me funny and squinted. Sitting in a folding chair backward, gray slicked-back hair, tank top -- an extra from Goodfellas -- he said, "Whadda

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A tale of two new Stadiums
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A tale of two new Stadiums

The Mets and Yankees have opened their new baseball megalopolises during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and yet have priced them so that

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Yankee greats -- and not-so-greats -- pay final respects to Stadium

On damp, overcast Saturday afternoon, the Yankees held the final Old-Timer's Day at the Stadium, bringing back a record 72 players, from A-List legends like

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Yankee Stadium II defined a new era in New York City
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Yankee Stadium II defined a new era in New York City

There was a T-shirt in New York in the early '80s that said, "Welcome to New York, Now Go the ---- Home." It is only with a small degree of exaggeration that

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Fear factor
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Fear factor

"Nobody did it like me," Goose Gossage said recently, and he's right. Over the course of his outstanding 22-year career that should finally land him in the

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