A Haunting in the Bronx
May 7, 2011 by Josh Deitch · 2 Comments
Call the Fantastic Four! Call the Ghostbusters! Hell, somebody at least get in touch with those meddlesome kids who travel around in a van with their dog. (Just tell them to leave Scrappy Doo at home.) Ghosts are haunting Yankee Stadium! The Curse of the Bambino—Babe Ruth’s posthumous revenge for Harry Frazee’s decision to sell […]
Story of 1921 Expertly Researched and Written
July 12, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment
1921: The Yankees, The Giants, & The Battle For Baseball Supremacy In New York by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg is one of the best books I’ve read in quite some time. Spatz and Steinberg put a lot of time and effort into their 515-page recollection of the 1921 season and it shows. In fact, […]
Seamheads.com Beefs Up Its Roster For 2010
March 1, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Recently I put out a call for new writers and was floored by the response. In just a week, we’ve added 36 new writers, a lot of whom are professionals or have had the pleasure of covering baseball during their lives, including Sean Lahman, Gabriel Schechter, and former ESPN senior writer Jon Pessah, who helped […]
Babe Ruth, Movie Actor
January 4, 2010 by Arne Christensen · 2 Comments
Many baseball fans already know about how Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees after the 1919 season, apparently to fund his production of the play My Lady Friends in 1920, which became Frazee’s musical hit, No, No, Nanette, in 1925. But the superstar he sold did some acting of his […]
