Mel Allen

Watching CSI: NY, I recognized the lead actor as the same person who, in Forrest Gump, played the lieutenant who lost both legs in the Vietnam War. I think his name is Gary Sinise. But the actor in CSI: NY seemed to have both legs. Is Sinise an amputee or...

It was after midnight, but the farewell party still was under way on the field when a Yankee Stadium employee walked down a corridor holding a power drill in one hand and a sign in the other. Yup, it was that sign, the one that had hung over the ramp...

Maybe it started when Pedro Martinez hit leadoff man Gerald Williams eight years ago and eight players got ejected. Petey nearly threw a no-hitter that night at Tropicana Field, but he was a no-show when Greg Vaughn invited him out to the parking lot to...

How about this? University of Alabama law school grad Melvin Israel was on a week's vacation to New York in 1937 when he interviewed for a radio job at CBS and wound up, after working and living in Gotham's environs the rest of his life, on a plaque in...

Check out this rare video snippet from Don Larsen's 1956 perfect game, in which Duke Snider nearly ruins history, as called by Mel Allen. Pretty cool. Even cooler is that on July 10, for the first time, the only known......

Sportscaster Curt Gowdy, the voice of NBC Sports for a decade in the 1960s and '70s and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, has died. Gowdy died of leukemia Monday (Feb. 20) at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 86. After making his...

In tabulating the final tally for the Medals Per Capita rating that so beats the daylights out of the generic, standard, thoughtless, tyrannical, useless, weak Medals Table, some astonishments did reveal themselves. For one thing, two countries, Colombia...

If you compare Bob Costas' odyssey to that of a major-league baseball star, you'd have to call his ``Commack Years'' the equivalent of a low-level minor-league experience. Commack was the place where the sports-loving Costas made plenty of ``rookie''...

IN THE 18 SEASONS from 1947-64, the Yankees win 15 AL pennants and 10 World Championships. They place second once and third twice. It was also a high-water mark for New York baseball. There were six all-New York World Series; the Yanks took four of five...

No one could ever accuse Jim McKay of signing up for another Olympics because he's resume building. Or because he needs the paycheck. "It sounds like fun," says McKay of his handshake deal to cover his 12th Olympiad. "It's one more time around the block....

WHEN IT WAS Chuck Thompson's time to say a few words, Fred Manfra led him to the microphone and then Chuck's wife, Betty, and his son, Craig, were there to guide him away. Chuck doesn't see too well now. It is one of the cruel ironies of our time. For...

Newsday's Top 100 Yankees were determined by members of the staff. They were written by Bob Herzog. 1. Babe Ruth First, he saved baseball from the aftermath of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal by luring fans back to the ballpark to see him hit mammoth home...