Over the weekend, my family went for dessert at Holsten’s, the ice cream parlor where they filmed the final episode of “The Sopranos.”
It was my first trip there since the series ended, and, upon walking in, I asked the waitress, “Where was Tony?”
There were no more words needed. She knew that I was asking “Where [...]
Sport columnist Joel Sherman makes the key point about Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera.
Writing in The New York Post after Rivera tore his ACL in a freak pre-game accident, Sherman says the relief pitcher is more than just a baseball player. He is the embodiment of greatness, not in the cheap, hero-a-day way so common today, [...]
If you’re trying to improve at something, remember these words: It doesn’t matter if you’re doing things right if you’re not doing the right things.
It reminds me of the best parking job I ever did. Late for practice, I gained a few precious seconds by slipping gracefully into the parking space and racing into the [...]
Excuse the short post, but I saw this item on Twitter and wanted to get it to you quickly. It’s former Yankees Manager Joe Torre giving his top six rules for managing players.
Any advice from Torre should be accepted eagerly. Even though he won multiple World Series with the Yankees, his biggest achievement was working [...]
Former LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman once did a video called “Winning the Big One.” In it, Bertman spoke of the daily, constant, relentless effort to improve.
I’m not sure if Yankees Manager Joe Girardi has seen the video, but his drive to improve has brought a motivational gem to the clubhouse.
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No one I know thinks of Babe Ruth as an intellectual giant. Ruth, born on this date in 1895, partied his way through life, going for all the gusto he could. He lived that way both on and off the field.
“I hit big or I miss big,” he once said. “I like to live as [...]
It’s a scene played out all over the country — and even outside the country — during baseball’s off-season.
Big-league players make appearances, either for money, as a favor or out of a sense of gratitude.
Whatever the reason, you never know what effect these visits can have. It’s like a stone thrown into a pond. No [...]
Steve Jobs famously wore the same outfit every day because he didn’t want to devote any brain power to the choice of clothing.
His reason was simple. Thinking about clothes was simply not important to him. In no way was it a priority.
No matter what your wardrobe looks like, you can use Jobs’ example in your [...]
On this date 92 years ago, the Boston Red Sox sent the contract of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $100,000.
Boston owner Harry Frazee needed money to get out of debt. So he made the deal.
We all know how the deal turned out. Ruth became a Hall of Famer, the Yankees became baseball’s [...]
The other day on TV, a baseball expert used the phrase “projectable body” to describe a player taken in the recent draft. By “projectable body,” the expert meant a body that, while not yet developed, will likely grow to become what’s needed in the big leagues.
That’s what the draft is all about. It’s not about [...]