Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

October 1st 1956

Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees get ready to face the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Sereis starting October 3rd at Ebbets Field.   

The Yankees would win their 17th world championship and give us the true fall classic in game 5.  This was Don Larsen's MVP performance with the only perfect game in baseball postseason history.  Larsen won game 5 2-0 but the Yankees would need 7 games to finally dispatch the Dodgers.   

Flashback Tuesday

A look back at the 1977 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers.  I was 10 years old and I loved the Yankees and Reggie Jackson while my dad was an old school Dodgers fan.  Needless to say it was fun at our house with the arguing and complaining.

Game 5

Sunday October 16th 1977

Dodger Stadium

Starting Pitchers :  Yankees - Don Gullett,  Dodgers - Don Sutton

This was broadcast by ABC with Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and Tom Seaver on play by play.  The is the first World Series broadcast by ABC TV since NBC had exclusive rights to the Series since 1946, the beginning of the World Series on TV. 

Magazine Cover of the Week

LIFE 

August 18th 1961

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the New York Yankees chase "The Babe" for the single season home run record.  Maris would set the new mark of 61 on the last day of the 1961 season.

2017 MLB All Star Game Home Run Derby

Aaron Judge

(New York Yankees)

2017 Winner of the Major League Baseball All Star Game Home Run Derby

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

Roger Maris

October 2nd 1961

Roger Maris of the NY Yankees was chasing Babe Ruth's record of 61 home runs in a season.

He had won the American League MVP in 1960 and would win it again in 1961 as he set the new single season home run record with 61.  Maris along with teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford would power the Yankees to the 1961 World Series championship defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 1.

Today in Baseball History (September 30th)

September 30th is a big day in baseball history going from 1927 - 1992

September 27th 1927

Babe Ruth, of the NY Yankees, hits home run #60 in the 1927 season, breaking his own record of 59 from 1926.  This record would stand until 1961 when Roger Maris, also a Yankee, hit 61.

1972

Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente gets his 3,000 career hit in his final at bat of the season. Sadly this was also his last at bat ever as he would die in a plane crash while flying relief supplies to earthquake ravaged Central America.

1984

Mike Witt of the California Angels pitches a perfect game (no batter reached base, 27 consecutive outs) against the Texas Rangers in Arlington TX.  

1992

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals get 4 hits in the final game of the season to get 3000 hits.  He would finish his career with 3,154 hits.

R.I.P. YOGI BERRA

September 23rd 2015 - The sports world lost one of its most successful players and the world lost a legendary person with the passing of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra.   Berra passed away at the age of 90 but left behind a legacy like no other.  He was quoted as much as Shakespeare and in some places as much as the Bible.  The winner of 10 World Series rings as the catcher with the NY Yankees from 1946-1963.  He would also managed the Yankees and the NY Mets (leading both to World Series appearances but lost both times) and coached with both teams and the Houston Astros, his last stop in 1989.   His son Dale would play in the majors to some acclaim but sadly became more famous for being part of a drug scandal with the Pittsburgh Pirates.  

Yogi was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 and his #8 was retired by the Yankees the same year.

2000 MLB All Star Game MVP

Derek Jeter 

Shortstop

(New York Yankees)

Winner of the 2000 Major League Baseball All Star Game MVP

1943 World Series - Game 1 (Cardinals vs Yankees)

Our friend Buck Benny has come through again, this time we go back 70 years this month to 1943 and the original radio broadcast of the 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and St Louis Cardinals.

This is game one from Yankees Stadium with your announcers Red Barber and Bob Elson.

Truly a time capsule of America playing sports during wartime and to listen to future Hall of Famers Joe Dimaggio and Stan Musial in action.  This was also the first world series to be filmed for a "highlight reel" to be sent to troops overseas to get a recap of the games back home, a tradition that continues to this day.

October 5th 1943