Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More

This is mostly about sports, and then mostly about baseball. It will favor the New York Yankees, the New Jersey Devils, Rutgers University football, and the London soccer club Arsenal. You got a problem with that? Make your own blog.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

April 2, 1995: Baseball's Longest Strike Ends

Jorge Posada and fellow Puerto Rican Sonia Sotomayor, at the new Yankee Stadium in 2009, after her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court Ap...

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

April 1, 1985: Villanova's Perfect Game

April 1, 1985, 40 years ago: Someone who had been following the college basketball season, but had been unable to watch the game, might hav...

April 1, 1950: The Death of Charles Drew

April 1, 1950, 75 years ago: Dr. Charles Drew dies as the result of a car crash in Burlington, North Carolina. He was only 45 years old. Ch...

Monday, March 31, 2025

Yankees Torpedo Brewers

The Yankees' 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Opening Day at Yankee Stadium II was nice. It's not looking rather pedestrian. Fa...

March 31, 1975: The End of the John Wooden UCLA Dynasty

March 31, 1975. 50 years ago: The Final of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament is held at the San Diego Sports Arena. (It...

Sunday, March 30, 2025

March 30, 1925: The Last Non-NHL Stanley Cup Winners

March 30, 1925, 100 years ago: The Stanley Cup is awarded, but not to the Champions of the National Hockey League. That has never happened ...

Saturday, March 29, 2025

March 29, 2000: Major League Baseball In Japan

March 29, 2000, 25 years ago: For the 1st time, a Major League Baseball regular-season game is played outside of North America. The New Yor...

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About Me

Uncle Mike: Central New Jersey, where men are men, and the women also root for the Yankees., United States; Born in North Jersey. Raised in Central Jersey. Yankee Fan and Rutgers fan since 1977. Devils fan since they arrived in 1982. Arsenal fan since 2008. Former Nets fan, now an NBA free agent. No NFL team. Single, interested in changing that status. No children, but uncle to two teenage girl athletes and one in the making. Liberal Democrat and damn proud of it. Hopefully, in sports as well as politics, I can live up to the words of the late John Spencer on "The West Wing": "We are going to raise the level of debate in this country, and let that be our legacy."

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