From the author’s desk
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Mets and Their post-WS tickets
first published SI.com 11/4/2015 Any number of words might have described the stands at Citi Field over the last few months of the Mets’ 2015 season: giddy, joyous, bananas and, at the very end of…
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Daniel Murphy and the Mets
first appeared SI.com 10/19/2015 As philosophical conundrums go, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson has certainly been in trickier spots. But still, if he has both a brain and a heart—and there is ample evidence of both—he…
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NBA Commissioner David Stern and the League He Left Behind
David Stern grew up in New York City and he can tell you about going to the old Madison Square Garden with his father to watch the Knicks, when a middling ticket cost 50 cents…
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What might Joe DiMaggio be earning today?
Joe DiMaggio would have turned 100 years old today — at that age, and against today’s pitching, he’d probably hit a little better than Ruben Tejada — and there is nothing he would have enjoyed…
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What is a Pete Rose autograph Really Worth?
This also appeared on fivethirtyeight.com) In the long and varied history of sports heroes — from Pheidippides to Johnny Football — none has signed his name more often, nor more energetically and whimsically, than Pete…
