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So Bob and Kim are gone. What now? I really hope Lorenz’s YES career isn’t over. Its a bad situation, but if there’s room for former drug addicts in baseball, then a one-time DUI shouldn’t derail the career of a likeable personality. A DUI is WAY worse...
90s, I definitely remember thinking he was good in the early part of the decade, despite his actually horrible performance. In 1991 the position hit something of a low mark. The Yankees started the season using 26-year-old Mike Blowers and 25-year-old...
I think the thing that haunts me is that someone lost their life
Rogers's claim to fame was that he had pitched a perfect game in 1994 for the Texas Rangers and that he was knocked out of the box by the Atlanta Braves in the fourth game of the 1996 World Series. That was the game that Jim Leyritz tied with a...
The Yankees were down 6-3 in the game and 2-1 in the series when Leyritz’s three-run blast tied things up in the top of the eighth, and they eventually won the game in extra innings when Wade Boggs drove in the winning run with a bases loaded walk. The...
Some notable October moments might get left out to keep this from going too long. Sept. 4, 1995: Posada makes his big league debut, replacing starting catcher Jim Leyritz in the top of the ninth of a game the Yankees win, 13-3. It’s his only appearance...
I think I got it. How ’bout this? How ’bout this? We trade Jim Leyritz and Bernie Williams, for Barry Bonds, huh? Whadda ya think? That way you have Griffey and Bonds, in the same outfield! Now you got a team!
Sweeney was one of the first catchers in Yankees history, playing for the club between 1908-15. He ranks in the top 10 of multiple offensive categories when it comes to New York backstops, including first all time with 62 steals. Jim Leyritz hit one of...
VERO BEACH – (CBSMiami.com) – Jim Leyritz is a man whose life was defined by two moments – the first was on a baseball diamond when his home run helped his New York Yankees team to the 1996 World Series title. The second moment happened in 2007 when afte
James Joseph Leyritz (born December 27, 1963 in Lakewood, Ohio) is a former catcher and infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees (1990-1996, 1999-2000), with whom he debuted on June 8, 1990. He also played for the Anaheim Angels (1997), Texas Rangers (1997), Boston Red Sox (1998), San Diego Padres (1998) and Los... Full Article
I think the thing that haunts me is that someone lost their life
I think I got it. How ’bout this? How ’bout this? We trade Jim Leyritz and Bernie Williams, for Barry Bonds, huh? Whadda ya think? That way you have Griffey and Bonds, in the same outfield! Now you got a team!
If I could change that I would
The responsibility wasn’t mine. At the same time, the results were terrible
Why am I involved in this and what lesson is to be learned?
Yes, I was guilty of drinking and driving that night, but I did not cause this accident
You thank God every morning that you have the ability to have another day on Earth
There was no reason for a car to come through that intersection at that speed at that time
It’s something that I would never, ever do again
