Manning was originally drafted by the New York Yankees in the ninth round of the 2001 draft out of the University of Tampa. Manning spent parts of three seasons in the Yankees system before being traded to the Cincinnati Reds on July 31, 2003 as part...

Spring Training two years ago, and only paid him $737k of his $2.95M salary (45 days worth). Guaranteed contracts, which are most free agent and multi-year deals, entitle the player to every cent no matter when he voluntarily retires or is released for...

Baseball players are in the public eye and leave much bigger legacies than regular schmucks you like and me, and if they’re lucky enough that legacy will be a positive one. Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Reggie Jackson, Aaron Boone, David Cone, Bernie...

I learned that looks can be deceiving from Ron Guidry and Mariano Rivera. Neither man looks to be an imposing physical specimen, but what Guidry did in 1978 and what Rivera has done for his career are astounding. I learned about miracles from Bucky...

I mention this because, ten years later, we're just starting to gear ourselves up to attack them. The relative goodwill between Iran and the Great Satan lasted a decade. By contrast, my 9/11 sympathy for New York evaporated in October of 2003, when...

I covered the World Series clincher in 2009, but a championship is different. It’s a culmination, a part of a bigger picture. What Jeter did stands on its own. The 2004 postseason, do you immediately think of the World Series loss or the Aaron Boone...