"Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us." Full Article at HumanEvents.com

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Baseball/softball Club Nine Baseball in Everett is offering a Catchers Camp on Nov. 18 and Dec. 9. Sessions are from 6-8 p.m. The camps are for players U8-U13. Full Article at HeraldNet

He was a liberal FDR Democrat. Liberals, he taught me, cared about the little guy and always rooted for the underdog. Full Article at The Hill

Seven deadly sins; seven wonders of the ancient world; seven days in the week; John Elway and Mickey Mantle both wore the number seven. Seven is a good number November is good too. Put November and seven together and you get awesome. Full Article at Bleacher Report

I was born a few blocks from Yankee Stadium. The first baseball game I ever saw was in The House That Ruth Built and another great Yankee hero, Mickey Mantle won it with a 9th inning home run. I became an instant New York Yankees fan. Full Article at Huffington Post

The Yankees have been the elite franchise of Major League Baseball throughout the years, and they added to their rich World Series history on Wednesday by capturing their record 27th title with their win over the Phillies in Game 6 at Yankee... Full Article at MLB.com

titles), Mickey Mantle (seven) and Whitey Ford (six) in 1962, according to STATS LLC, did it as Yankees. NEW YORK - Jorge Posada tapped Andy Pettitte on the chest when it was time to leave. Full Article at L.A. Daily News

Does everyone have their celebratory post queued up? I say the first person to get theirs in gets a prize "He wasn't an astronaut! He was a comedian, and he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife!" Full Article at Pinstripe Alley

MYFOXNY.COM - As the Yankees go for another World Series championship, Yankee fans can come to the rescue of one of their own. A valuable Yankees souvenir has been stolen. Eddie Kull is devastated. Full Article at WNYW | Fox 5 New York

Mickey Mantle was crying. When Bobby Richardson flashes back to how Bill Mazeroski's game-ending homer vaulted the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Yankees in the 1960 World Series, he remembers that Mantle wept. Full Article at Providence Journal

Mickey Mantle was crying. When Bobby Richardson flashes back to how Bill Mazeroski’s game-ending homer vaulted the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Yankees in the 1960 World Series, he remembers that Mantle wept. Full Article at The New York Times

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Baseball/softball Club Nine Baseball in Everett is offering a Catchers Camp on Nov. 18 and Dec. 9 (6-8 p.m.). The camps are for players U8-U13. Full Article at HeraldNet

"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat." Full Article at Pinstripe Alley

Derek Jeter won the Hank Aaron award. MLB will announce before the game that because of the achievement, they will rename it the Derek Jeter award for Derek Jeter. Somewhere, Joe Mauer weeps. Full Article at Sports Blogs

PHILADELPHIA - Maybe all Alex Rodriguez needed to come out of his funk was a good dose of Cole Hamels, the pitcher who has made an incredibly negative turnaround from one postseason to the next. Full Article at Boston Globe

If any place showed the split between Yankees and Phillies fans in the Lehigh Valley, it was Bill Geiger's couch. Full Article at The Morning Call

NEW YORK -- Forget for a moment about Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera. Pedro Martinez thinks he is "at times the most influential player that ever stepped in Yankee Stadium." Full Article at Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune

This World Series has led to family texting wars - "U R going down" - and parents competing to draw their kids away from "the dark side," whichever side that may be. Full Article at PhillyBurbs.com

Some readers may know him as the sage “Larry in New England.” Larry Canale, based near Boston, is a columnist and former editor at Tuff Stuff, a sports collectibles magazine, and author of several sports-related books, including The Boys of Spring and... Full Article at The New York Times