Two recent baseball events caused fond memories to come charging back, while reinforcing the inter-generational hold that New York baseball has on my family.
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8/3/23
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Summer makes me happy, but I must confess to being very irritated by one subject. I refer to the Yankees and the Mets.
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7/27/23
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It is unknown if anyone will recite the movie line, ”you’re killing me, Smalls,” but former Major League Baseball player Daniel Murphy — a Mets playoff hero — said he is just looking for a sandlot to play in. The 2015 postseason record breaker is part of the 2023 Long Island Ducks, the team’s 23rd season.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/3/23
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I don’t really follow baseball anymore. As a rabid Yankees fan who devoured everything about the game for nearly 40 years, I never thought I’d say that.
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By Nick Buglione
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6/9/22
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We can be thankful that the 2016 election nightmare is officially over. There are almost no happy observations we can make, but I’m compelled to talk about the bad, which has outweighed the good.
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11/10/16
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Late Sunday night and early Monday morning, my sons Joseph, 17, and Michael, 12, and I stayed late at Citi Field, watching our Mets lose the World Series. We’re all bummed.
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11/5/15
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Thousands of Long Islanders were overjoyed to see New York Mets captain David Wright smiling and drinking champagne with his teammates at Wrigley Field on Oct. 21, after the “Amazins” swept the Chicago Cubs to capture the National League Championship and clinch a World Series berth. For Adam Rubin, who grew up in Bellmore and is now the lead Mets beat writer for espnnewyork.com, that moment was special in a deeper way.
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/28/15
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The snow may continue to fall — who knows, maybe till Easter this wacky winter — but baseball fans are following the first reports from spring training and counting the weeks until Opening Day.
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2/27/14
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The Bellmore Little League Sand Gnats Minors Division captured the 2011 Boys World Series by besting the Bats 11-10 in their last at bat at the Bruce Gary Memorial Field on June 22. Above, top row, from left, were coaches Scott Rosenfeld and Domenick Logozzo, and assistant coach John Arlia; middle row, Dylan Judd, Cooper Moran, Zach Rosenfeld, Peter Malin, Nick Heller, Michael Arlia, Jack Oppenheim, David Defillipo, Zach Raso and Zach Hazen; and bottom row, Matthew Logozzo and Hunter Moran. Missing was Connor Auty.
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7/18/11
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