Word: silveraã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2005-2005
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still is, and in fact the rivalry has never been stronger. In Silvera??s day, the Nation-Empire rivalry had competition—the cross-town Brooklyn Dodgers were perennial pennant winners as well...
...Silvera??s words, spoken the day before the 2005 season kicked off, proved prophetic last Thursday night, when a semi-malicious Red Sox fan—and now-former season ticket holder—Christopher House hit Gary Sheffield in the mouth as he was chasing Jason Varitek’s eighth-inning triple, leading to a punch from Sheffield and an emptying of the New York bullpen...
Still, the Sheffield incident was a little uglier than most of the confrontations in Silvera??s playing days...
...Scott Fitzgerald wrote about “the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us,” but baseball and the Boston-New York rivalry have only improved since the golden age of Silvera??s playing days. Baseball has history in a way that basketball and football don’t. Silvera is one piece of that history, simultaneously a reminder of what was and a reason for why the present is so special...
| 1 |