Sports

The next day, I opened the paper to the first page of the sports section where Falls' column appeared several days a week. I was surprised to see my picture below his usual masthead.

Wilson had no problem finding whiskey during Prohibition and drank most of his money until his wallet was dry.

Kligman, who is shomer Shabbat, said he will not play on Sabbos and whatever team he goes to will have to adjust their schedule to accommodate him... "It's important for me because that's not the way G-d intended me to use the day," he told The Jewish Press by phone.

I have many memories of him talking to Ralph Branca, who also pitched for the Tigers in the mid-fifties.

Sixty years ago and fifty years ago. 1952 and 1962. They were memorable years for many of us.

As the years flew by, one thing remained constant in Sid’s life – the New York Yankees.

Video: Tennis player Shahar Pe'er demonstrates her intensive training program. She also reveals her "lucky charm" and talks about the Israeli people, who she loves representing abroad.

The Boston Red Sox will have three opening days in three different countries. The first will be in Japan on Tuesday, March 25, against Oakland.

He was the oldest former major league ballplayer when he died last month at the age of 100. Bill Werber was a teammate of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth with the Yankees in 1930 and again three years later. He also played for the Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants before retiring in 1942 with a .271 career batting average. He outhit Hank Greenberg .370 to .357 in the 1940 World Series, leading the Reds over the Tigers in seven games.

In 1870 the Chicago White Stockings headed south to New Orleans for preseason workouts.

I was one of 2,400 people at the recent Yeshiva Beth Yehudah dinner held in downtown Detroit.

In 1966, actor William Shatner became commander of the Starship Enterprise on television and the Trekkie generation was born.

He's older than any radio station and spoke before movies did. My legendary friend Ernie Harwell will be 90 years old soon.

In a rematch of last season's Holyland Series, Lobos looked for revenge, but it was Café Rimon who prevailed – though all agreed that this encounter would pale in significance to a potential postseason meeting.

Like the fans, she adored him. By the time his career as a player, coach, and manager ended, Yogi had collected

The Dodgers had him hone his skills as a third baseman and catcher in the minor leagues and brought him up to the major leagues in 1943 when he was only 19.

Those of us who were around then will never forget that afternoon 59 years ago.

If Team Israel manages to win against the Dominican Republic on March 14, it would mark one of the biggest upsets in sports history.

The 2008 baseball season is finally here. These are my predictions:

It was Hank Greenberg's 25th yahrzeit recently and I said Kaddish for baseball's biggest Jewish superstar.

Let me tell you about my new book. Like you, I’m interested in Jewish baseball players and Jewish history. So, after years of research, first-hand observations and interviews, I combined the aforementioned information from the post-civil war era to the present and came up with a book titled Jewish History in the Time of Baseball's Jews: Life on Both Sides of the Ocean.

"I consider baseball a very good thing for the population during the war," Roosevelt stated.

Video: Vered Buskila is competing as a sailor in her third Olympics and dreams of winning a medal this time. Buskila talks of her love for the sport, her desire to compete at the highest level and the balance she must find between sailing and her other career as a lawyer.

Of all the audiences I’ve spoken to, the Boynton Beach guys were among the best informed on baseball history and trivia.

The very first All-Star Game I ever saw was in 1950, a few weeks after our family got its first television. That was the year I started following baseball and collecting baseball cards.

Musial told the taunted Jackie Robinson: "I want you to know that I'm not like many of the other guys on my team."

A famous face from that first '52 Topps set was Alvin Dark, who died in his South Carolina home recently at 92.

Admittedly, I took a liking to and saw a lot of the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals, who share the new spring training facility.

By 1943 both Rosenthals were serving in the armed forces. Both used chutzpah and bluffed about their age.

Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, will visit Israel after his title defense fight against Timothy Bradley on June 9, according to his Jewish promoter Bob Arum in a report by JTA.