BRIDGEWATER – Forty-five years removed from winning the American League Cy Young Award in pinstripes, Ron Guidry still cares deeply about the New York Yankees. “Louisiana Lightning” made his first ...

Major League Baseball has always been theater. On April 19, 1972, Marty Appel added some now-standard pomp. Then 21, the Brooklyn native and New York Yankees' assistant public relations director ...

With the New York Yankees breaking tradition and updating their grooming policy, let’s take a look at the baseball cards of four players who not only had a complicated history with the rule, but also ...

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Sparky Lyle is royalty in Somerset Patriots country. He was their manager for 15 seasons prior to the minor-league club switching from independent ball as an Atlantic League ...

Sparky Lyle stares at a list of names in the press box of TD Bank Ballpark. After 16 seasons as one of the best relievers in major-league history and nearly 25 years with the Somerset Patriots, this ...

One-time Cy Young Award winner and former Somerset Patriots manager Sparky Lyle believes New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole could be close to making his 2024 MLB regular-season debut following Cole's ...

One of the first times Sparky Lyle explained the objective of the Somerset Patriots to an MLB executive, he was interrupted by a strange sound. On a road trip to visit spring training sites in 1998, ...

For The Boss, it wasn’t really about beards. It was about long hair. Lost in all the hoopla about the Yankees last week updating their facial hair policy to allow “well-groomed” beards was that George ...

Major League Baseball has always been theater. On April 19, 1972, Marty Appel added some now-standard pomp. Then 21, the Brooklyn native and New York Yankees' assistant public relations director ...