How Dominican Jimy Kelly changed international signing rules | SI.com
BY Melissa Segura On a rainy March afternoon, Jimy Kelly squeezes into his seat between the tightly packed tables at La Nueva Espana Restaurant in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood. The smell of fried chicken hangs in the air. Kelly, like most of Dominicans who frequent the hole-in-the-wall in the working-class barrio, doesn’t bother [...]
Little League Named for Slain Cop Michael Buczek Opens Season With a Parade | DNAinfo
By Paul Lomax Cops and kids marched through Washington Heights to honor the memory of an officer slain in the line of duty 24 years ago — and to kick of the season of a baseball league named in his honor. The parade featured players from the Michael Buczek Little League, which is named for [...]
Baseball Coach Steve Mandl Suspended Before a Hearing Is Held | NY Times
By JIM DWYER One more time, at the end of another high school championship baseball game, Steve Mandl was floating around a ballpark, perched on the shoulders of whooping players last June. He had taken this victory ride before: In 27 years, Mr. Mandl, the coach of the George Washington High School baseball team in [...]
Manny Ramirez, the High School Legend | NY Times
By SARA RIMER Published: April 25, 2011 Hero. Cheat. Prodigy. Ingrate. Free spirit. Knucklehead. Hall of Famer. Pariah. Enigma. Manny Ramirez, one of the great right-handed hitters of his generation, who retired from baseball this month after once again testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, was many things to many people — fans and family and [...]
Uptown in Brief: Bernie Williams Gives Back to the Inwood Little League
By Mike Silva Bernie Williams and Juan Marichal conducted baseball clinics with the Inwood Little League kids, distributed autographed baseballs and delivered remarks about Time Warner Cable’s donation to the Inwood Little League, which included athletic equipment such as catcher’s gear, a batting cage and a pitching machine. In addition, Inwood Little League kids who [...]
Where Baseball Rules, Even in Winter – NYTimes.com
BY Noah Rosenberg On Sunday night the big game was on nearly all the wall-mounted televisions at one Manhattan restaurant, and the eyes of many beer-drinking patrons never left them. Athletes in green were running across the screens, but not a single chant of “J-E-T-S” could be heard. That is because the restaurant, El Nuevo [...]
UPTOWN PIRATE – PEDRO ALVAREZ
BY Led Black Baseball, for many Dominicans, both on the island and in the states, is so much more than a game. It is a lifeline, a potential goldmine and an obsession. In this neighborhood, the people are not simply fans but fanatics. That is especially true when the player is from the area. Folks [...]
UPTOWN FIELDS THE DREAM
BY Carolina Pichardo Baseball is the Dominican Republic’s greatest pastime, it’s heart and reason for beating, it’s fresh breath in the morning, etc. [Add your own simile here.] Since the early 1960’s, the country has given birth to some of the Major League’s best players. Which is why it’s only natural that this same fascination/love [...]
THE END OF AN ERA: PLAY BALL!!!
With baseball season just underway, I recently started to reminisce how growing up in the Heights back in the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s the only team that has ever mattered is the New York Yankees. As a kid, we played sponge ball, softball and ultimately baseball pretending to throw, catch and hit like our favorite Yankees while playing in the school yard at PS 173 and the fields of J. Hood Wright Park.
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