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.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

March 15, 1926: Norm Van Brocklin Is Born

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March 15, 1926, 100 years ago: Norman Mack Van Brocklin is born in Parade, South Dakota, and grows up in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut...

March 15, 1946: The Arrest of "Axis Sally"

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March 15, 1946, 80 years ago: Mildred Gillars, the Nazi propagandist known as "Axis Sally," is arrested. She was born in Portlan...

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Vance the Bully's Flunky

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Look, at this point, to paraphrase the opening of the TV show Castle , there are two kinds of people: Psychopaths, and people who want Donal...

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March 12, 1956: The Southern Manifesto

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Southern Senators, led by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina March 12, 1956, 70 years ago: The Declaration of Constitutional Principles is ...

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

March 11, 1996: The Montreal Forum Closes

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Five Montreal Canadiens legends. Left to right: Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lafleur, Jean Béliveau, Maurice Richard and Pierre Turgeon. March 11, 1...

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

March 10, 1936: Dorothea Lange's Photo of Florence Owens

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March 10, 1936, 90 years ago: The San Francisco News publishes Migrant Mother , a photograph by Dorothea Lange. It becomes one of the for...

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March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

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March 10, 1876, 150 years ago: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Or, some would say, "invents" it. A Scotsman who had ...

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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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