The Sunday Links
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jul 13, 2008 
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The Yankees and all of baseball mourned the passing of Bobby Murcer.
Sam Borden remembers a man who treated everybody like a friend.
The Yankees beat the Blue Jays as Darrell Rasner got the win.
A-Rod passed a legend on the home run chart. This notebook also has updates on Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Phil Hughes, Brian Bruney, Chad Moeller, Humberto Sanchez, Jason Giambi and Derek Jeter.
The Sunday Baseball Beat focuses on Phil Hughes, who has a lot of catching up to do. The column also looks at Ryan Church and Jason Varitek.
ALL-STAR GAME PREVIEW
The Futures Game and the Celebrity Softball Game kick off All-Star festivities today. Brian Heyman has that story. Jesus Montero and Ramiro Pena are in the game for the Yankees. Brian Heyman has the story.
Paul Lozito was the bat boy at the 1964 All-Star game and has some great memories. Rick Carpiniello has the story.
The game is only part of the All-Star show writes Brian Heyman.
The game “counts” as MLB and Fox like to say. How much does that matter?
Sam Borden turned to poetry to salute Yankee Stadium
The Stadium takes center stage this week. Sam Borden writes.
Here’s a look at the Top 10 All-Star Games.
Here’s a look back at New York’s All-Star Game history.
The All-Star Game is not the battle it once was according to John Delcos.
But being an All-Star is still a huge honor. John also has that story.
Actually prose is what a newspaper writer usually writes. That link was to a poem.
What the heck has MLB planned to actually pay tribute to the place the game is being held? In San Fran they brought out Willie Mays, in Boston they brought out Ted Williams. They have a ton of stuff planned, but I have yet to hear about anything with a bit of Yankee-ness to it.
It seems to me more like “The MLB Takes Manhattan”. They seem to be looking more to celebrate baseball in general and promote their brand than celebrate the closing of one of the most historic buildings in history.
Why in the world is a arod not competing in the All-Star home run Derby? am i the only knucklehead that can’t believe that this flunky won’t step up
Great article on Hughes … thanks for putting all the info out there … we need to lessen our expectations a bit here for sure.
Very nice piece by Sam Borden on Murcer.
I didn’t quite get all the affection people had for the man, but I do now.