Joe DiMaggio

It Started With Yankees Great Mickey Mantle: New World Record For Signed Baseballs

Assembling more than 4,000 autographed baseballs, it turns out, may not have been as tough a task for Dennis Schrader as proving the collection was a world record.

WFAN–2011/10/18

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By The Numbers: MLB’s Top 10 Practically Unbreakable Records

Not one of us figured 714, 892, 3508 or 2130 would ever be surpassed. They were baseball’s Magic Numbers. Well, decades later, we certainly know better.

WFAN–2011/08/23

Poll: Derek Jeter Ties Babe Ruth As Greatest All-Time Yankee

Derek Jeter has tied Babe Ruth as the greatest Yankee of all time among New York City baseball fans. For that, No. 2 can thank the female fan for voting for him in droves.

WFAN–2011/07/29

Hartnett: 3,000 Will Be Remembered As A Footnote In Derek Jeter’s Glorious Yankees Career

As Derek Jeter approaches 3,000 hits, the landmark has little bearing on his baseball legacy as possibly the most dominant winner in the game’s history.

WFAN–2011/07/08

Portrait of Mickey Mantle outside Yankee Stadium. (credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

By The Numbers: Memories Of Major League Baseball

It is a day when multi millionaires prance around the baseball field like European royalty on a polo field. To keep perspective on a game that America continues to love, it is important to look back on the better experiences of watching major league baseball.

WFAN–2011/07/06

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Alleged Nude Photo Of Yankees Legend Joe DiMaggio Up For Auction

With the Anthony Weiner sexting saga still bulging at the seams, perhaps it’s apropos that an alleged nude photo of a Yankees great has hit the auction scene.

WFAN–2011/06/13

B&C Morning Show: Alex Rodriguez’s Charmed Life And Joe DiMaggio’s Junk

This morning, Craig got to see an alleged photo of the “Yankee Clipper” Joe DiMaggio in the nude, which brought a smile to his face and numerous thoughts to his brain…

WFAN–2011/06/13

Jeter First In Pinstripes To 3,000 Hits

Sometime in the next week or so, Derek Jeter will hold up his right hand to ask the plate umpire for time, give his bat one more ritualistic twirl and then, perhaps take an iconic inside-out swing and send another liner to right field to become the 28th player – and first in four years – to reach the magic number.

WFAN–2011/06/12

FILE - New York Daily News sports cartoonist Bill Gallo attends a photo-op at the 24th annual Thurman Munson Award dinner in this Feb. 3, 2004 file photo taken in New York. New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo, known for his playful characters, died Tuesday May 10, 2011 from complications of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital according to the paper. He was 88. (credit: AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

NY Daily News Cartoonist Bill Gallo Dies At 88

Bill Gallo, a cartoonist and columnist for the New York Daily News, whose playful characters included depicting the blustering New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a spiked Prussian military helmet, has died.

2011/05/11

Andre Ethier (credit: Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Andre Ethier Brings 29-Game Hit Streak To Mets’ Citi Field

If he’s healthy enough to play, Andre Ethier will try to extend his 29-game hit streak against Jon Niese when the Dodgers open up a three-game set against the Mets on Friday.

WFAN–2011/05/06

Joltin’ Joe’s Record Won’t Likely Be Broken Anytime Soon, Writer Says

As baseball teams begin to take the field across the nation, many are looking forward to the records that will be broken, but there’s one record has withstood the test of time and still hold strong.

2011/03/27

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is seen during the Baseball Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, New York. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

NY Classic: Cooperstown To Honor ‘Talkin’ Baseball’ Composer

As a minor league pitcher, Dennis Minogue hardly had Hall of Fame talent. Once he changed his tune — and name — and forever linked Willie, Mickey and the Duke, he earned his spot in Cooperstown.

WFAN–2011/03/18

Derek Jeter (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)

Keidel: Jaded Over Derek Jeter

I was all set to pound the Knicks. Then I saw this silly Siena College poll crowning Derek Jeter as Jesus, the most beloved athlete in New York’s wondrous history.

WFAN–2011/03/16

By The Numbers: APBA Baseball

Bobby Lemke and Leo Smith were two of my best friends growing up in Hoboken in the 1960’s. And they still are. If the weather was bad and we couldn’t play stickball, boxball or touch football, we would head to Bobby’s house (or Leo’s or mine) to play APBA Baseball.

WFAN–2010/11/19

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