By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor The following is an excerpt about credentials of what makes a ballplayer. It comes from a longtime baseball executive from the Bronx who played ball at the Allerton ball fields and attended Christopher Columbus High […]
News From TOPPS As 20 commissioned popular artists across the world continue to re-imagine 20 iconic cards from the past 70 years in the Topps Company’s “Project 2020,” the first numbers are in, and with three Mike Trout cards and three of Derek […]
By William Coppola: Contributor Bronx Chronicle Sports Today a friend of mine wrote to me: “Remember when I said there are no longer any facts? That now “there are two sides to every story?” Well, I couldn’t sleep last night, so […]
By William Coppola/ Contributor Bronx Chronicle Sports As many of us sit at home and wait for this pandemic to pass, I begin to think about how different things have become. The temporary loss of basketball, hockey and baseball will be […]
By William Coppola: Contributor Bronx Chronicle Sports Bitsy Mott, Bordie Waddle, Rinty Monahan, Skeeter Kell, Ozzie Van Brabant, Taffy Wright, Gerald Fryfogle, MacDuffee Biggs, Tony Napoles, Wiley Williams, Enid Drake, Bordie Waddle, Dixie Upright, Buzz Dozier, Perley Grant and Bobo Holloman. […]
By William Coppola- Contributor Bronx Chronicle Sports The search for the next Mike Trout or Max Scherzer has taken on a new partner. That being, analytics and algorithms. Today professional baseball organizations, have asked their scouts to give them more […]
By William Coppola/ Sports Columnist Bronx Chrinicle Get ready fans, more changes could be on the way soon to the game of baseball or should we say the “Rob Manfred” game of baseball? On July 11th it was announced that Major […]
By Robert Press Saturday afternoon under bright sunshine and a temperature close to seventy degrees as the Throgs Neck Little League baseball season began. Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. told the young ballplayers and their parents about his childhood when […]
By William Coppola On a recent visit to Costa Rica unrelated to baseball, I was impressed by the beauty of this tiny country between Nicaragua and Panama. The weather was amazing with 75 degree days and zero humidity. The people […]
I recently received a call from Mead Chasky, the sports memorabilia guru, to tell me that Lou Piniella had a stroke.
By Ray Negron As I walk around this year’s spring training camp at the George M. Steinbrenner Field, I can’t help but smile seeing so many kids running around. There are actually more kids than adults, which has not been […]
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 […]
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 […]
The New York Yankees announced that additional protective netting will be installed at Yankee Stadium for the start of the 2018 regular season.
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 […]
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