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.

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Mário Zagallo, 1931-2024; Franz Beckenbauer, 1945-2024

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A caption out of date since 2018. There are 3 men who have won soccer's World Cup as both a player and a manager. And 2 of them have jus...

Monday, April 13, 2020

Peter Bonetti, 1941-2020

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A member of perhaps the most famous sports team the world has ever known has died, and most Americans have never heard of him. Which shou...

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Carlos Alberto, 1944-2016

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You know a year is taking too many great and/or inspiring people when it takes the Captain of the greatest team ever assembled in the his...

Friday, October 23, 2015

Happy 75th Birthday, Pelé!

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Ad on the inside of the back cover of the 1978 Yankee Yearbook. October 23, 1940, 75 years ago: Edson Arantes do Nascimento is born ...

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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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