The Four Colors of Babe Ruth

The Four Colors of Babe Ruth

BY MICHAEL OSACKY New York is the home of many great sports’ franchises both past and present. Whether you are eating a sandwich at the Carnegie Deli or watching a play on Broadway, the person next to you is always willing to talk about the hometown team. Many great Hall of Famers called New York […]

Babe Heads Home

Babe Heads Home

Internet offers once rare opportunity to see Babe Ruth in feature film just before he became a national hero. Best part: the movie was made locally at Ruth’s old Haverstraw stomping grounds BY JOHN MIRABELLA Special to the Rockland County Times Growing up in Haverstraw, N.Y. I, in fact we, as a town, had heard […]

Spring is in the Air and so is America’s Pastime

Spring is in the Air and so is America’s Pastime

Spring is in the Air and so is America’s Pastime Originally published April 11, 2012; updated each season Rockland County Times Staff Editorial The 2015 baseball season is just getting started and it seems that every year on Opening Day there’s a special feeling in the air. It’s not like any sport or game. There’s […]