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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Saturday, May 24, 2025

May 24, 1935: The 1st Major League Night Game

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May 24, 1935, 90 years ago: For the 1st time, a night game is played in Major League Baseball. It's important to add the qualifier that...

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

1941: The Brooklyn Dodgers' 1st "Next Year"

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October 5, 1941, 80 years ago: Game 4 of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. It made the home fans shudder. I read an interview o...

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Top 10 Best Executives in New York Sports History

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Ed Barrow watches as Babe Ruth signs a contract for Jacob Ruppert I did it for team owners, here's an update for executives. For th...

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Top 10 Best Team Owners In New York Sports History

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In late February 2013, I did Top 10 lists for the best and worst managers/head coaches in New York sports history. I also did them for the...

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Something of Autumn About It

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Bicentennial Park in my hometown, East Brunswick, New Jersey. Date unknown, but it has to be after its 1976 opening. C.S. Lewis wrot...

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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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