Tears For Oscar Gamble
By Ray Negron When I first started with the Yankees as a batboy in 1973 Ron Blomberg used to tease me about my Afro hairdo. He and Bobby Murcer called me the “Oscar Gamble of batboys.” George Steinbrenner used to […]
Sports
![Oscar Gamble: his trade to the Yankees before the 1976 season brought about the demise of his large afro hairstyle. [Pintrest -- MLB.com]](https://thebronxchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Oscar-Gamble_Pintrest-250x150.jpg)
Baseball: Forever The Same
By William Coppola As we sit in freezing weather anticipating the coming of spring and another baseball season, the possibility of more changes to the game we love also brings about many discussions with fellow fans and yes even professionals […]
Fordham Gets Needed Win With Their Threes…
By William Coppola At Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym Saturday afternoon the Rams blew away the University of Massachusetts 82 -69 for a big win in the A10 conference. With the score tied at 40 and 14:26 on the clock in […]
Spence Jr. Could Be Next Sugar Ray
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Promoter Lou DiBella said that Errol Spence Jr. is in that category of Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. The undefeated IBF welterweight champion at the Barclays Center Saturday night continued his dominance by stopping […]
PEDs, Steroids and Cooperstown
By William Coppola The results of the voting for the 2018 class of new inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown will be announced next Wednesday. Heading the list are Chipper Jones and Jim Thome, who are on […]
Mets May Have KO’d Dominic Smith
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Dominic Smith heads to Port St. Lucie in four weeks and is back to ground zero. It is obvious the Mets first round draft pick has to fight for his job at first base now that […]
Darvish to Yankees Is Necessary
Yu Darvish has averaged 6.1 innings in a six-year career with a 3.42 ERA and a record of 56 wins and 42 losses.
New Fordham Football Coach: Defined Process
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Joe Conlin had the credentials and Fordham University Athletic Director David Roach welcomed his new head football coach to Rose Hill Thursday afternoon in the Bronx. This search for a new head coach did not take […]
Expanded Netting At Yankee Stadium
The New York Yankees announced that additional protective netting will be installed at Yankee Stadium for the start of the 2018 regular season.
Profile America: Designated Hitter
Thursday, January 11th. This date 45 years ago was a day that lives in infamy, at least among baseball purists. In 1973, the American League approved a three-year experiment with replacing pitchers in the batting order with a designated hitter […]
A New Steroid Era In Baseball
By William Copolla Some fans wonder if the baseballs used last season made to travel further than in previous seasons? Major League Baseball will tell us that there was no difference in the manufacturing of the baseball used last year […]
Aaron Judge Now a Book Phenom
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Six more weeks down in Tampa Florida and it will be the newest Yankee Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge. Already there is speculation and questions as to how many home runs combined the two will launch […]
New Pinstripe Bowl Star Emerges as Iowa Beats BC, 27-20
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Akrum Wadley, the two-time 1,000 rusher for Iowa will not forget Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. It was the annual New Era Pinstripe Bowl in the Bronx against Boston College on a field that was just […]
Fordham Names Joe Conlin New Football Coach
NEWS FROM FROM FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Joe Conlin, who served as the associated head coach/offensive coordinator at Yale for the past four years, was named head football coach at Fordham University it was announced today by director of athletics Dave […]
Omar Minaya Returns To The Mets
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Welcome home Omar Minaya! This is the Christmas gift New York Mets fans got even though roster moves are what they really want. Friday morning, the Mets announced that Minaya was returning to the organization as […]
SUPPORTING YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS
Follow Us