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My Knicks Stripes nail art!
I painted these with the hope that the Knicks will win! Let’s Go Knicks!!!
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I am not sure what is scarier - the “death row” eyes or the “pit bull” shifting jaws.
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crazy cool cover designs from NBA Italia.
Knicks vs. Celtics tonight at 7pm ET on TNT. Let’s do this New York.
Antique Film of Black Ballplayers Surfaces, and Their Diamond Is a Plantation
Read: NYTimes
“Before we all know someone who loved someone on that list….”
Let’s not let the momentum after Newtown fade away or go to waste. The President has signalled his commitment to come up with a plan, let’s hold him - and all our nation’s leaders - to that commitment.
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Hitting Lessons From Babe Ruth
1939 New York World’s Fair
That’s The Babe on the mic giving some baseball advice while Christy Walsh is ushering the previous young hitter out of harm’s way.
Obit of the Day (Historical): Jackie Robinson (1972)
October 24, 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. There are myriad sources telling of Mr. Robinson’s career and legacy. Obit of the Day will, instead, share some little known facts:
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919. He was named for President Theodore Roosevelt who died on January 6 of that year.
- Jackie attended UCLA and was the first student to letter in four sports: baseball, football, basketball, and track.
- He won the NCAA Long Jump championship in 1940.
- While at UCLA his worst sport was baseball.
- During World War II Robinson enlisted in the Army. In 1944 while serving at Ft. Hood in Waco, Texas he was court martialled for refusing an order to move to the back of a bus because of his race. He was found not guilty.
- Robinson would play one season in the Negro Leagues for the Kansas City Monarchs. According to Robinson, if Branch Rickey of the Dodgers hadn’t recruited him for the majors, he would have quit playing baseball and become a coach at Sam Houston College.
- Robinson was 28 years old when he stepped on the field on April 15, 1947 as the first African American major leaguer in over 60 years. He won the Rookie of the Year award, which is now named for him.
- Here are his stats for his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers which included the 1949 MVP Award as well Brooklyn’s only World Series victory in 1955.
- Jackie played himself in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), his wife was played by Ruby Dee.
- He was traded to the New York Giants, the Dodgers NL rival, after the 1957 season. He never played for the Giants having already signed a contract to work for Chock Full O’ Nuts - a coffee company.
- In 1965 Robinson became the first African Americans sports analyst when he worked on ABC’s Game of the Week.
- Robinson was a Republican, supporting Richard Nixon in the 1960 election as well as Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential and gubernatorial bids. He left the party in 1968 after they failed to support civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
- Robinson’s last public appearance was at game 2 of the 1972 World Series (October 15) where he threw out the first pitch in honor of the 25th anniversary of the integration of baseball. The Cincinnati Reds were playing the Oakland A’s.
- He died at the age of 53 from a heart attack in his home. His eulogy was given by the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
- In 1997 Jackie Robinson became the first, and so far only, player to have his uniform number retired throughout all of baseball. (Wayne Gretzky is the only other professional athlete to earn that honor.)
Family notes:
- Jackie’s brother, Mack Robinson, won the silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 100 meter sprint. Jesse Owens finished first.
- Jackie’s wife, Rachel, was an associate professor of psychiatric nursing at Yale University at the time of Jackie’s death.
- Jackie’s son, Jackie Jr., died in a car accident in 1971. He was only 27.
Sources: NYTimes, jackierobinson.com, Wikipedia, IMDB, The National Archives, baseball-reference.com
(Image is copyright of the Associated Press and courtesy of nabnyc.blogspot.com )
And here’s the trailer for the April 2013 release of the film 42. Yes that’s Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey and Chadwick Boseman as Jackie. Music by Jay-Z.
Of course, the Yankees were still in the World Series with regularity back then, so not everything changes. Having won 106 games during the 1939 regular season under manager Joe McCarthy, the Yankees breezed to the American League pennant, winning the flag by a staggering 17 games. In the ‘39 World Series, New York won games 1 and 2 at Yankee Stadium — moments from those contests are captured in the footage above — en route to a sweeping the Fall Classic.
1939 World Series Color Footage: Film Reveals Yankee Stadium Hosting Reds, Yankees
All this is to say that a random game in the upfront of a long season is one people rarely remember. But Mets fans will remember this night for generations.
The Flushing Faithful will tell their kids about the night Johan Santana threw a no-hitter, and their kids will be bored to tears after hearing the story so many times, but the parents won’t care. “In the sixth-inning, we caught a break.” “I know, Dad, I’ve heard this so many times already!”
I’ll be telling my kids about the Davids (Cone and Wells) perfect games; Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit. Sure, I’ll tell my kids about the 1996, ’98, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’09 Yankees teams. But to talk about a random, meaningless game in early June means that the game isn’t meaningless. Baseball, besides being a game of numbers, is a game of stories. It’s history. Other sports have their moments, but how many of them come during the early part of the season? We don’t talk about the random week 3 game in the NFL; we rarely talk about a November NBA game. Yes, part of that has to do with the fact that baseball is a long season. And part of that has to do with the seemingly trivial minutia of a game that’s defined by numbers. But those numbers, they tell stories that bind moms and dads with their kids.
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…I will protest, however, on behalf of historical accuracy, the continual references right now to how the opponents in both today’s game and the first ever at Fenway exactly a century ago were the New York “Highlanders.” This is one of those misunderstandings of history that never seems to get straightened out. Yes, the New York American League team was colloquially known as “The Highlanders” when it was moved from Baltimore in 1903. Andyes, the name “Yankees” wasn’t formally adopted until 1913.
That does not mean the 1912 New York team wasn’t known as the Yankees. In fact the name was in common use no later than 1907. Evidence?
Read: Wonderful Ceremony, But They Weren’t The Highlanders « Baseball Nerd
Soon on Display in Brooklyn: ‘Holy Grails’ of Baseball
They were presumed lost, one more casualty from a move that broke a borough’s heart.
But this week, a century-long odyssey will come to an end when the original 1912 blueprints for Ebbets Field, the iconic home of the beloved, bedeviling Brooklyn Dodgers, will be displayed in public for the first time in decades.
They will be the centerpiece of an exhibit on the Dodgers at Brooklyn College set to open on Thursday.
Read: WSJ.com
life:
In honor of the idea of Daylight Savings Time — a practice that, in effect, adds a bit more daylight into most everyone’s routine — and fully aware that the true nature of time remains, and will likely always remain, an unknowable mystery, LIFE.com offers a selection of marvelous photographs, stroboscopic and otherwise, by the great Gjon Mili.
Here are technically brilliant pictures that fiddle with moments, junctures, sequences — and in the process offer a playful commentary on the slippery relationship between mere mortals and the temporal.
Pictured: New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell throws a curve ball, 1940.
‘Bounty-Gate’ Just the Latest in Football Scandals
News that the New Orleans Saints used a bounty system may have come as a shock, but cheating is nothing new in the NFL.
life:
On this day in 1920, the New York Yankees purchased Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for $125,000.
In this gallery, LIFE.com presents rare and unpublished photos from the day of his final public appearance at Yankee Stadium; two months before his death of cancer on August 16, 1948. Morse — 93 years old, and as sharp as ever — recently spoke with LIFE and recalled what it was like to photograph one of the 20th century’s greatest athletes as the Babe said his final, poignant goodbye.
“I took the pictures, and headed down to the LIFE offices with the film,” Morse says. “But when I got there, Ed Thompson, the managing editor, says, ‘Sorry, Ralph. We couldn’t wait for you. We closed the page.’ Well, that was that. The issue was closed, and I lost the page I was shooting for. They put some sort of Hollywood s—- or something in there instead. I don’t remember. But it was all right. That sort of thing happened all the time. And the pictures I got were good, even if the magazine never used them.”
The Racist Redskins by Michael Tomasky | The New York Review of Books
Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins by Thomas G. Smith
