The flag that inspired the National Anthem. It resides in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. A good deal of part two of Ken Burns’ “Tenth Inning” was devoted to Baseball’s reaction to 9/11. Burns, who is always good at tugging the heartstrings, had me choked up with my ...

I note that while I was away, Jay made reference to the great Bob Dylan/Band Basement Tapes song “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.” He linked to the song’s Wikipedia page, but he didn’t give you the song itself, an unforgivable oversight given (1) how many great versions are ...

You can do this trick now using Baseball-Reference.com, but back when I did it in 2001, BB-Ref didn’t yet exist and I had to figure it out by myself . . . twice. Henderson’s long career makes him the perfect candidate for this kind of game. Six Degrees Of Rickey Henderson #1: Rickey And Honus Wagner. 1. ...

Jim Edmonds has always been a favorite player of mine, and there were times that he could have been, and perhaps should have been, a Yankee. In the spring of 2000, it was rumored that the Angels would trade their Gold Glove center fielder and that the Yankees were in on the bidding.  Those rumors were ...

Concurrent with the Pinstriped Bible, I started up a Yankees history column called the Monument Park Project. It ran 52 weekly installments and went away when the original Yankees.com folded. The feedback I got at the time was tremendous, but I never have had the opportunity to revive it. In introducing ...

Available in VHS . . . only I wrote this for the original incarnation of Yankees.com, in the days before all the team sites were taken over by MLB Advanced Media. The theme resonated with many readers as well as the folks who put together the season highlights package for video—the same people who ...

A reader asked me to re-publish this list of guiding principles from 2003. Thank you for remembering. This is the 18th installment of the Pinstriped Bible on the web site of the YES Network and the 135th chapter since this series began many ballgames and web sites ago. Like politics, religion, and baseball, ...

As you read these words, I am in a car somewhere, taking my first vacation in about five years. I will probably post from time to time, but for the most part I’ll leave you in the good hands of Cliff, Jay, and Stephani. While I’m gone, I thought it would be interesting to dig into the back catalog ...