It's really hard to believe that September 11, 2021, will be 20 years since the terrorist attacks that targeted Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, and took down the World Trade Center.
He is perhaps best known for being the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw a perfect game in the World Series on October 8 1956, but this New York Yankees great did do much more, and on Wednesday he stepped onto the mound in heaven.
Yankees fans know him well and love him forever for hitting one of the most iconic home-runs in the history of the franchise to win Game Seven of the American League Championship Series over the rival Boston Red Sox in 2003.
Todd Frazier, the Toms River Little League champ turned MLB all-star, is Bronx-bound. New Jersey baseball fans are in a frenzy over Frazier's move to the Yankees. Here's Twitter reaction & some clips of 'Fraz' himself.
There goes spring training and maybe the rest of the baseball season, at least for Yankees fans. Many cable subscribers at the Shore will not be seeing most NYY games.
Whether you love the Yankees as I do, or root for any team playing against them, we can all agree that star closer Mariano Rivera is an incredible player who will be missed in baseball.
It was an emotional night in the Bronx last night as Mo left the diamond for the last time.