The Bombers not in the Bronx?
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Dec 02, 2011 
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Cool story in today’s New York Post.
An old letter shows that, back in 1915, the Yankees considered building a new stadium in midtown Manhattan. In a letter to American League president Ban Johnson, team co-owner Colonel Tillinghast L’Hommedieu Huston requested a meeting to discuss the possible location.
“We have canvassed the feasibility of the 42nd Street site for a ballpark,” Huston wrote. “Col. Ruppert and myself will be with the Club when it reaches Chicago, and we will be glad to discuss the subject with you then.”
Pretty cool stuff. If you haven’t already, check it out.
If they had the only attraction in the Bx would be the Bx zoo.
Absolutely fascinating!
Pat M. December 2nd, 2011 at 7:25 pm
GB……I can fully understand and respect Maine’s point of view regarding Edwin, but man o man what an and with top shelf stuff…..Much like AJ he’s inconsistent…..I’ve mentioned this before but when he first came up to The Dodgers ( way too early ) , Vinny Scully told all his listeners that Edwin Jackson has the stuff to be something quite special…..I’ll get torched for this comment, but there’s only a few guys who I’d want ahead of him…..I rather him over Buehrle for certain…..He’s power pitcher who needs tutelage by a power pitching type coach…..
Pat,
It might be a toss-up between Buhrle and Jackson for me, but, I’d take Jackson over Wilson any time, mainly because he could be signed and moved at a lower cost to NY if necessary. There’s still a young pitcher with a great arm waiting to break loose. I always go back and look at a 26 year old failure named Guidry breaking loose in 1977.
MaineYankee December 2nd, 2011 at 7:26 pm
GB7
Unfortunately life is full of what ifs.
Like what if you learned how to type.
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Maine, I’m your friend and like to see you occupy your time effectively. If I learned to type and spell, what would you have left in your life to look forward to? Nothing left to complain about.
Hello GB & Pat M!
I too like the upside on Edwin Jackson, but maybe I’m not credible because I still like the upsides of AJ, Phil & Joba too! LOL!
Hope y’all are doing great!
GB
There was also a lefty named Sandy that had great stuff but was inconsistent but turned things around! LOL!
It would have created an interesting dynamic considering how badly the 42nd St area deteriorated until it began to revive about 15-20 yrs ago. In fact I wonder if the Yankees would definitely have moved to NJ in the early 1990s, with attendance down, a bad team and in a neighborhood even worse than the Bronx.
On the other hand, I wonder if George Steinbrenner’s letters about moving to northern NJ will become valuable & be auctioned off in about 90 years. Or maybe the legal document showing the YankeesNets buyout of the Devils will be valuable, remember that? One never knows.
GB….How about being able to hit a driver that only slices to the next fairway as opposed to 3 fairways…..You need a megaphone to yell ” FOUR ”
GB7
It doesn’t take much to occupy my time.
Were used to a slow pace here.
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We were in Phoenix visiting my BiL and they got after us for our slow pace when we were at the mall.
great arm….but how many teams have tried to fix Edwin Jackson now? At some point I think you have to consider that maybe a guy just is what he is…..a 1.4 WHIP guy is what’s he’s been his entire career….with all 6 teams.
I think he’d be a great sign if you had a solid 1-3 and you wanted to take a flyer on a guy that you sign as a 4th starter….and see if he turns out to be a #2……I don’t think the Yanks are in that situation…especially when they have basically an older Edwin Jackson in AJ.
Pat M
What are your thoughts on your new Lakers coach?
ay, good eening. Not being as old as you and Randy are, so I don’t remember back to the early 1900s. Was this Koufax guy any good?
Yeah, Koufax was really hurt by the bonus baby rules of the day. Never got to play in the minors and he was 25 or 26 before he started becoming Sandy Koufax. Imagine him getting two years in the minors at least and having a healthy left elbow thos last 5 years of his career and then tacking on at least 6 more quality seasons. Koufax is the perfect excuse for having a DH. He hurt his elbow xkiding into 2nd base against, of all teams, the Giants.
***Ray, good evening***
Pat M. December 2nd, 2011 at 7:49 pm
GB….How about being able to hit a driver that only slices to the next fairway as opposed to 3 fairways…..You need a megaphone to yell ” FOUR ”
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Orville was never concerned about me hitting other fairways. He was more concerned about me hitting people and cars in the parking lots behind me.
What new Lakers coach?
Pat M
What are your thoughts on your new Lakers
coachcenter?GB7
Golf should be banned anyway.
It’s a waste of good pasture land.
m
Mike Brown.
m
Did I miss that they traded Bynum?
Good evening my young friend GB! LOL! Yeah if Sandy could have stayed healthy & the Mick too, what a pair those two would have been for historical sake. Imagine a healthy Mick for 20+ yrs & another 6 to 8 yrs of Koufax being himself. It would have been incredible. Could you imagine if FA had been around then! LOL! Koufax in Yankee Stadium with pinstripes!
Perfect timing. One of the greatest sports movie of all time just starting….”Knute Rockne, All American”…with Pat O’Brien and some bum actor named Ronald Reagan.
MaineYankee December 2nd, 2011 at 8:04 pm
GB7
Golf should be banned anyway.
It’s a waste of good pasture land.
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Orville Moody thought my golf game was perfect for a pasture. Said my play reminded him of things he stepped in out in a pasture.
Trader….I think it was a great hire and Brown will employ a more disciplined defense and they’ll be in far better condition for the shorten season….m, as for Andrew Bynam, not certain how many games he’ll miss for his antics in Dallas but this is his put up or you’re gone season…..LA wants Howard ……
Ray, I’ve often wondered what Mantle, Maris and Koufax could have done if they had stayed healthy, same with guys like Ted williams, , Feller, Spahn and others who missed time during WWII and Korea.
Howard, yeah. That’s the one.
GB
I have often wondered what Ted W would have done in the Bronx if that Joe D trade had happened. Ted W with Mick & Marris & the gang would have been phenominal.
Pat M
Bynum got 5 games.
Will Kobe tune Brown out like Lebron did?
GB very true!
GB7, Maine, Ray,
I stink at golf, too, but I don”t have anything to say about the nothing that’s going on yet. Im here, though.
tomingeorgia
You can say alot of nothing and fit in here.
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Colonel Tillinghast L’Hommedieu is a glorious, moniker.
Maine….I don’t see Kobe doing anything of the sort, he’s a winner and I think he learned that when he and Shaq acted like spoiled brats …..They could have won at least 3 more Rings if Phil Jackson’s fragile egodidn’t forced GM Jerry West out the door……West was one of the greatest GM’s in all of professional sports…..
Maine,
You have that right!
Pat M
I’m not a big Phil fan.
If not for Pitino the Celtics would have been revelant sooner.
It took a long time to overcome the mess he made.
He also forced Bird to go some where else in order to be involved.
The days of Pitino were a very dark period for Celtics fans.
Pat M
Have you read Wests new book?
It sounds like a good read.
Jackie Macs book on Bird and Magic was a good read.
It gave you a view of just how intense the rivalry really was.
“If I learned to type and spell, what would you have left in your life to look forward to? ”
gb7-
well, maine yankee always has looking forward to when the snow finally melts in the summer.
speaking of maine, i was actually in portland tonight .
really cool. great piece of yankee history