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Bleacher Creature Feature -- New York Yankees Rants by Keith R.A. DeCandido The New York Yankees have been my favorite baseball team since I first started following the sport in 1976. I have written the occasional rambling thingie about the Yankees over the past few years, and I formalized it in 2002. Since my girlfriend Terri and I have season tickets to see over a dozen Yankee home games from the bleacher seats, we are now among those legends of urban myth, The Bleacher Creatures, so I've decided that my ramblings are called the Bleacher Creature Feature. www.sff.net /people/krad/bcf.htm   (422 words)

Staten Island Yankees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Staten Island Yankees, previously based in Watertown, New York, and the Brooklyn Cyclones were two minor league teams to be brought to the outer boroughs of New York City in 1999 by a deal brokered by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Affectionately nicknamed the "Baby Bombers", the Staten Island Yankees are a Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees and play in the New York- Penn League at Richmond County Bank Ballpark along the waterfront in St. The Staten Island Yankees are a minor league baseball team, located in Staten Island, New York. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island_Yankees   (325 words)

New York City Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography New York City is also home to the nation's largest community of American Jews, with an estimate of 972,000 in 2002, and is the worldwide headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitch sect and the Bobover and Satmar branches of Hasidism. New York City is also home to two minor league baseball teams that play in the short-season Class A New York - Penn League. Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean. encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/New_York_City   (325 words)

Carol Birch - Lou Gehrig New York: Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, 2002. THE GREATEST OF ALL: THE 1927 NEW YORK YANKEES. Bombers: An Oral History Of The New York Yankees. www.carolbirch.com /lou_gehrig.html   (613 words)

NYYFans.com - Yanks Move AA Operations To Trenton - New York Yankees Coverage New York Yankees Coverage With A Bronx Bias For the past seven seasons, the Norwich Navigators, also of the Eastern League, have been a Yankee farm team, but New York will move its Double-A operations from Norwich, Conn. to begin play next season. In 2002, they became the first team in the history of Minor League Baseball (at the Double-A level or below) to draw 400,000 fans for eight consecutive seasons. www.nyyfans.com /article/697   (239 words)

Most Valuable Network - Independent Thinking » Canadian-American League The righthander was signed as a nondrafted free agent by the New York Yankees and spent the 2002 season at Staten Island of the New York-Penn League, where he led the league with a 1.90 ERA and was named to the league’s post-season all-star team. After playing the 2002 season in the Western and Atlantic Leagues, he moved to the Milwaukee organization in 2003 and the Chicago White Sox system in 2004, where at Winston-Salem (A) he was second in the Carolina League in wins with 12. There is tradition within in the league as the name was an original in the league’s inaugural season in 1936 (in another form, this is the first season of the current Can-Am League). independent.mostvaluablenetwork.com /index.php?cat=3   (239 words)

Bloomberg.com: U.S. The American Basketball Association's New Jersey Americans were sold to Arthur Brown in 1967, and moved to suburban Long Island the following season, and became the New York Nets. ``We need to come to some conclusions sooner rather than later,'' said Marc Ganis, a consultant who is on the negotiating team for YankeeNets LLC, the holding company that controls the Nets, Devils and New York Yankees baseball team. Mayor Sharpe James and Anthony Coscia, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman who is representing the city in the talks, didn't return telephone messages left at their offices Friday afternoon. quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=awA5YJObMAhE&refer=us   (646 words)

News 14 Carolina 24 Hour Local News SPORTS Yankees rookie Robinson Cano lined a three-run double in the first inning to give New York the early lead. Cano began the season with Triple-A Columbus, but was promoted in May as general manager Brian Cashman shook things up to get the Yankees out of an early-season skid. After a sensational September that earned him AL rookie of the month honors, Cano's clutch hit Tuesday helped the Yankees to their first victory in a division series opener since they took Game 1 from the Angels in 2002 before losing the next three. www.news14charlotte.com /content/sports?ArID=103982&SecID=12   (1124 words)

ESPN.com - MLB - Angelic Guerrero wins American League MVP Guerrero easily defeated his competitors on the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on Tuesday, becoming just the fifth player to switch leagues and earn the honor in his first season with his new team. NEW YORK -- Vladimir Guerrero had such a huge impact during the final week of the season that voting for the American League Most Valuable Player award wasn't even close. He is the fourth Dominican to be MVP, following Toronto's George Bell (1987), the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa (1998) and Oakland's Miguel Tejada (2002). sports.espn.go.com /mlb/news/story?id=1924078   (733 words)

SI.com - MLB - Verducci: Boone could be out for season with torn ACL - Monday January 26, 2004 6:08PM NEW YORK -- New York Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone could miss the entire 2004 season after suffering a major knee injury last week while playing basketball in violation of his contract with the club, according to two baseball sources. Aaron Boone is one of only three players with at least 50 homers and 50 stolen bases since 2002. Boone, whose dramatic home run ended the epic seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series against Boston, avoided arbitration Dec. 1 when he agreed to the one-year deal to return to the Yankees. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/baseball/mlb/01/26/boone.acl   (310 words)

Hilltopics Fall 2002 Charley Steiner '71, right, interviews New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens before a World Series game last season. Steiner appreciates his job because, although he regularly scours the Internet for newspaper reports on opposing teams, arrives at stadiums hours before game time to prepare for broadcasts, and follows the Yankees for a grueling 162-game season and the playoffs, his schedule is less rigorous than at ESPN. Steiner, who was at ESPN at the time, was recently named the Yankees new radio announcer. www.bradley.edu /hilltopics/02fall/profiles.shtml   (2376 words)

American League Playoffs: Yankees vs. Angels New York is barely better than.500 outside the Bronx, going 42-39 on the road this season. ANAHEIM, Calif. — The last time the New York Yankees traveled to Anaheim in the playoffs, their pitchers got pounded and they headed home for the winter frustrated after a first-round exit. New York has the same record, but lost the tiebreaker for home field based on head-to-head record. www.dailysouthtown.com /southtown/dssports/pro/043sd1.htm   (890 words)

Welcome to Wise Foods, Inc. Jorge has been awarded the 2001 Milton Richman “You Gotta’ Have Heart” Award by the New York Chapter of the BBWAA, and he received the 2000 Thurman Munson Award for his accomplishments on the field and in philanthropic work in New York. Jorge is glad to appear on behalf of another New York favorite, Wise Potato Chips, and we’re proud to have him. His 30 home runs in 2003 tied the single-season record for Yankees catcher (set by Yogi Berra in 1952 and 1956). www.wisesnacks.com /promotions_new_jorge.html   (385 words)

Press Release - RailCats Sign Hammond's Mike Mamula - Gary SouthShore RailCats Mamula batted.225 with 3 Home runs and 25 RBIs in 52 games last season with the Staten Island Yankees in the New York-Penn League (A), helping Staten Island win the league championship. Mamula, a Hammond High School graduate, was signed as a free agent after being released by the New York Yankees this past winter. Mamula was named sandiegobaseball.com’s 2002 player of the year, and also earned all-conference, all-region, and NAIA honorable mention All-American honors. www.railcatsbaseball.com /PressRelease_detail.asp?ID=76   (385 words)

Infield instructor leaves Pirates organization - PittsburghLIVE.com Infield instructor Alvaro Espinoza has decided to leave the organization and become a minor-league coordinator with the New York Yankees. Espinoza spent parts of 12 seasons in the majors as an infielder and was with the Yankees from 1988-91. Espinoza, 41, spent one season on McClendon's staff after serving as the Pirates' roving minor-league infield coordinator in 2002. www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_159999.html   (375 words)

Oh, Contreras: Yankees' reject can pitch after all : The Morning Call Online The Yankees signed Contreras to a $32 million, four-year contract after he defected from Cuba in October 2002, but he struggled badly against the rival Red Sox and was inconsistent throughout his season and a half in New York. Jose Contreras pitched shutout ball against his former team, and the Chicago White Sox got home runs from Paul Konerko and Tadahito Iguchi in a 2-1 victory Tuesday night over the New York Yankees. Contreras also retired Hideki Matsui with two on to end the first and a runner at second to end the sixth. www.mcall.com /sports/baseball/more/all-yankeesaug10,0,6390689.story?coll=all-sports-hed   (723 words)

New York Daily News - Baseball - Chavez & A's reach out to Giambi Giambi signed a free-agent contract with the Yankees before the 2002 season. But Chavez reached his former A's teammate by phone "a few days ago." Though Chavez did not reveal many details of the conversation, he did say that Giambi was unable to guarantee that he would be back on the field by the end of this season. Since being diagnosed with a benign tumor, the Yankees' first baseman has not been back to the Stadium and is apparently not returning calls. www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/story/219160p-188477c.html   (395 words)

AllSports' NFL News - Texans take QB Drew Henson in second day of NFL draft Many scouts considered Henson to be worthy of the first pick in the 2002 NFL draft, but the Michigan quarterback chose baseball instead, signing a four-year, $17 million contract with the New York Yankees. Henson is slated to be the Yankees third baseman in 2004, but has struggled in the minors this season, batting under.200 for Class AAA Columbus. NEW YORK (Ticker) - The Houston Texans ended up taking Drew Henson after all, even thought it may be all for naught. www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=41074   (760 words)

Scout.com: PP 2004 Scouting Report: OF, Melky Cabrera The New York Yankees assigned Melky Cabrera to the Staten Island Yankees in 2003 after he played for the Yankees Dominican Republic Summer League Team in 2002. Cabrera’s lack of power during this stretch and throughout the entire season as well is for the most part a non factor when you consider the rest of his natural baseball tools and on different occasions has been described by people close to the team as “toolsy”. Cabrera picked up right where he left off in his first campaign as a Staten Island Yankee where he was the overwhelming pick by many scouts as the teams best offensive player until a man named yankees.scout.com /2/223111.html   (1192 words)

OHS graduate Bellinger out, at home Bellinger, 36, earned two World Series rings with the New York Yankees in 1999 and 2000, and a third with the Anaheim Angels in 2002. Bellinger, who signed a one-year free-agent contract with the Baltimore Orioles last season, said he received no offers this season to continue a career he started in 1989 as a second-round draft pick of the San Francisco Giants. Oneonta High graduate Bellinger ended a 16-year professional baseball career this season, just months after taking time off from his Triple-A schedule with the Ottawa Lynx to compete for the Greek Olympic Baseball Team during the 2004 Summer Games. www.thedailystar.com /sports/2005/04/16/spminor.html   (1184 words)

Report: Baseball teams struggle to meet payrolls - Jul. 12, 2002 The Tigers recently traded their top pitcher to the league's richest team, the New York Yankees, for a number of minor league prospects with low pay. Besides negotiations with the players on a new contract, Major League Baseball is moving ahead with plans to try to disband two teams before the start of next season. The report comes as baseball faces the next round of negotiations with the Major League Baseball Players Association, which is weighing whether to call a strike before the end of the season. money.cnn.com /2002/07/12/news/companies/baseball_payroll   (668 words)

Toby Ziegler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Toby is a fan of the New York Yankees baseball team. In "Posse Comitatus," the show's third-season finale, first airing on May 22, 2002, he claimed to have attended 441 games at Yankee Stadium. If he saw his first game there at the age of seven, in the 1962 season, and the show progresses in real time, this works out to about eleven games per season, though it is not clear if he could keep up this pace once he began working at the White House. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toby_Ziegler   (838 words)

ESPN.com: MINORLBB - Top International League prospects Just two seasons into his full-time commitment to baseball, the 22-year-old has the tools to be a franchise player in New York and the Yankees have the payroll to be patient with his growth. After an MVP season in the Double-A Southern League a year ago, Phelps began 2002 at Triple-A Syracuse and quickly showed why he was considered the top prospect in the Blue Jays' system. Chavez led the league with a.343 batting average and Rivera recovered from a broken leg to have a solid second half and a possible postseason role with the 26-time World Champions. espn.go.com /minorlbb/s/2002/0926/1437276.html   (1231 words)

New York Yankees News Lieber, who underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in August 2002, is one of three new starters in the Yankees' rotation this season, joining Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez. Lieber spent the 2003 season rehabbing from his surgery, starting three games in the minor leagues at the end of the year. Lieber took September and October off from throwing or lifting, doing just cardio exercises to allow his arm to rest after a strenuous season of rehab. newyork.yankees.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/nyy/news/nyy_news.jsp?ymd=20040126&content_id=630856&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp   (706 words)

IBB - International Broadcasting Bureau Already, Radio Mart�s listeners have heard play-by-play coverage in Spanish of several games, including match-ups between the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees. Washington, D.C., September 10, 2002-- Washington, D.C., Sept.10, 2002 � The Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which operates Radio and TV Mart�, is broadcasting select baseball games to Cuba for the remainder of the 2002 season under an agreement with Major League Baseball. TV Mart� will broadcast the division and league championships, the World Series and a weekly program known as "A Taste of Baseball," or "Sabor a B�isbol." www.ibb.gov /_ibb_pr.cfm?articleID=111   (706 words)

United Press International: Mets sign Rey Sanchez He spent three of the previous four years with the Atlanta Braves and also has played for the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants during an 12-year career. Published 12/27/2002 8:07 PM NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The New York Mets filled one of their needs on the left side of the infield Friday night by agreeing to a contract with Rey Sanchez. Sanchez, 35, hit.286 last season with one home run and 38 RBI in 107 games with the Boston Red Sox. www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021227-080707-3732r   (706 words)

NetShrine Discussion Forum - Bro Retires Brosius' contract with the Yankees expired after the World Series, and it was most unlikely that he would be back for 2002, with the top prospect Drew Henson preparing to take over third base sometime next season. Brosius batted.471 in the 1998 World Series and was named the most valuable player, and he was offered $1 million as part of an endorsement that would have required him to stay in New York for another six days. Brosius, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, played his first seven seasons in the majors with the Oakland Athletics, batting.304 in 1996 before plummeting to a career-low.203 in 1997. www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=1218   (2635 words)

ESPN.com - Obits of 2002 Frank Crosetti, who played shortstop 17 years with the New York Yankees alongside teammates including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. Frank Warren, defensive lineman for 13 seasons with the New Orleans Saints, who recorded 52 career sacks. A seven-time Pro Bowler and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Lane also holds the single-season record of 14 interceptions, which he set in a 12-game season as a rookie with the Detroit Lions. sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1482897&type=story   (1896 words)

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