Pomona, NY – The Rockland Boulders announced Tuesday that the Miami Marlins have purchased the contract of infielder Junior Arrojo. Arrojo, 28, has spent the last three seasons with the Boulders and was a key contributor to their CanAm League championship team in 2014. During his time with the team, he hit 11 home runs with 111 RBI and […]
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 […]
Accardi, Guarasci, DiBenedetto and Perez pull out all the stops with this one BY GEORGE J. DACRE With an onstage screen, strobe lights, special effects, a full eight piece orchestra, popcorn, hot dogs and cracker jacks, the Antrim Players have gone where no community theatre has gone before. The result is a smash musical about […]
BY MARC MATURO Rockland County Times’ sports reporter Marc A. Maturo is a lifetime honorary member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He was the Mets beat writer for the Gannett Westchester Newspapers from 1978-1985, and every year continues to write in the name of Pete Rose on his Hall of Fame ballot. At […]
By Joe Rini Dick’s Sporting Goods continued to celebrate the opening of its 500th store in West Nyack at the Palisades Center with another weekend of athlete appearances and product giveaways. On Saturday October 6, New York Yankees star relief pitcher Mariano Rivera graciously signed autographs for scores of happy Yankee fans and a few […]
By Joe Rini Chipper Jones Honored by Mets and “Mr. Shea Stadium” The dream of playing baseball for the hometown team is real for any dad who has soft tossed a ball to his young son holding a plastic bat or any 10-year old boy who’s homered in his backyard to win a World Series. […]