The Baseball Hall of Fame has a poll up on its Website, asking which of four milestones you are most looking forward to seeing this year.  The candidates: Ichiro Suzuki’s 10th 200-hit season Alex Rodriguez’s 600th home run (17 away) Trevor Hoffman’s 600th save (nine away) Juan Pierre’s...

Much has been made of the drawn-out negotiations for the services of Johnny Damon this off-season, in particular the belief that he and his agent, Scott Boras, misread the market and left money on the table.  Word is that the Yankees offered the free agent left fielder $14 million for two years, which...

There are certain kinds of products in which the official league or team license is essential.  Trading cards, jerseys and collectible figurines, for example, feel cheap without the official logos and marks.  For novelty items like bottle openers and coffee mugs, it might not make that much of a difference. So...

I read in today’s NY Daily News that Serena Williams is training to be a nail technician. Doesn’t surprise me one bit. Ever since they hit the tennis scene over a decade ago, Serena and her sister Venus have changed the way fans think about the sport.  They were the prime movers in increasing...

This morning’s snow in the Northeast (where it’s not wanted) and lack thereof in the Pacific Northwest (where the IOC has been doing snow dances for weeks) notwithstanding, Pitchers, Catchers and PR Guys report to Spring Training for all MLB teams in the next couple of days. Marketers, too. New...

When I was eight years old and started to show an interest in baseball, my dad first bought me a pack of baseball cards, then a couple of weeks later he brought home a game called All-Star Baseball, which had dual spinner devices and round cards representing top major league players.  This was the mid-to-late...

I woke up this morning to a radio report that Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman has indicated that he will not discuss contracts with Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Joe Girardi, all of which are expiring in 2010, until after the season.  With Jeter turning 36 this June and Rivera now 40, under...

I’ve always considered it something of a coincidence that I ended up attending the same university as my favorite all-time football coach.  I was, after all, a Packers fan and devoted Vince Lombardi supporter for a decade before deciding on Fordham (to none of the fanfare that yesterday’s...

I attended yesterday’s Bloomberg Sports presentation in New York, in which baseball bloggers, writers and geeks (can I be all three of those?) got a sneak peek at their new (intriguing, with room to grow) baseball analysis tools debuting on Feb. 18. There are two products, one is for consumers...