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 […]
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 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 […]