Jimmy Sez

Last month we began our review and rankings of the plaques on display at Monument Park. We're back with a new batch of bronze. The eight plaques featured here are a notch above the group we looked at last time, but they're not anything to write home about either. Rest assured that things will be looking pretty good from here on out. Ground-level view of the original Monument Park in Old Yankee Stadium. wallyg/Wikimedia Commons As was the case last time,  I won't share a picture of every plaque because they tend to run together and get redundant as you scan through them. For any that I don't have a picture of below, it's relatively easy to find via google . 24. Lou Gehrig - dedicated on July 4, 1941 A minimilast approach here for Lou, whose plaque was the second one commissioned by the Yankees after Miller Huggins. The first bit reads just like Babe Ruth's plaque, and awkwardly starts with this sentence: "A man." His consecutive games streak is mention...

Talk about your all-time duds. The Yankees opened 2023 with championship aspirations, yet here we are at the end of September and they are a lost franchise with no direction, identity, or clear path back to respectability. Recent history tells us that there's no reason to have faith in Yankee leadership this offseason, so let's instead re-live the glory days. I have an aunt and uncle that live in Maine. If you haven't been, I highly recommend it, any part of the state will do. Anyway, in my younger days my family used to visit them each summer and one of those years we got to talking to their neighbors who discovered that we were a family of Yankee fans. For some reason, they had a collection of framed photos of Yankee legends in their basement. As Red Sox fans, they had no use for them and offered them to us for the bargain price of zero dollars. Who said Red Sox fans aren't sweethearts? Of course, we took the photos home and put them right in our basement where they r...

Last month the Baseball Hall of Fame released their  2020 Modern Baseball Era ballot . The 10-man group includes three players that spent all, or at least a significant portion, of their careers with the Yankees. Tommy John, Don Mattingly, and Thurman Munson have all had their Hall of Fame candidacies thoroughly debated the conventional way by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). They each spent the maximum of 15 years on the writers' ballot without getting particularly close to the 75% of the vote required for election. Now, these three former Yanks will have their cases re-opened and examined by a special 16-member committee comprised of current Hall of Famers, MLB executives, and media members. If at least 12 of the committee members give the thumbs up on any player, they will be enshrined in Cooperstown next summer. Here we'll take a close look at the Hall of Fame resumé for each player to gauge their chances of election. To help give perspective, the JA...