The Yankees have been without a significant Jewish player for quite some time, but that is all about to change with yesterday’s minor-league signing. Billy Crystal — yes, that Billy Crystal — has signed a one-day minor-league contract with the Yankees and will be playing in an exhibition spring-training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on…
The Yankees may not have yet picked a successor for departing manager Joe Torre, but they have made some minor announcements in the past few days, signing two stars from this season’s Israel Baseball league to minor-league contracts. The Yankees organization picked up Jason Rees, an outfielder with the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox who hit…
If manager Joe Torre gets canned following the Yankees’ pathetic post-season, he can work for the Forward. Or at least that’s what our associate publisher told the New York Post. The Post queried a slew of New York employers as to whether they’d hire the Yankees manager, including our very own David Drimer. He told…
The baseball world is abuzz over Brewers third-baseman Ryan Braun, whose numbers in the big leagues make a compelling case for Rookie of the Year. Braun impressed the club in his first spring training game, going four for five with a grand slam, a three-run homer, a double, a single and a stolen base. Since…
Saddened by the Detroit Tigers 5-4 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals last night, and fearful that the Cards might snatch the national title tonight, documentary filmmaker — and lifelong Tigers fan — Aviva Kempner didn’t much feel like talking about the present. Instead, her thoughts were focused on the year of the two teams’…
On October 3, at the start of the baseball playoffs, Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, ran his mathematical model for baseball games and issued his predictions of the winners: the Yankees, Twins, Dodgers and Padres. By October 9, all four teams had lost. What are…
It’s bad enough that a nice Jewish boy like New York Mets outfielder Shawn Green has to measure up against artificially pumped-up steroid-using sluggers. But the Shmooze’s biggest fear is that, with the playoffs under way this week, Green — who sits out games on Yom Kippur regularly — will succumb to the most unkosher…
Together with shofar blasts, the hora and a Yiddish rendition of “America the Beautiful,” Jewish Heritage Day at Queens’s Shea Stadium last year also offered a nail biter of a baseball game. In the fifth inning, with the hometown Mets down 7-0, rookie Mike Jacobs — in his first major league at bat — hit…
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