By Marty Appel The Chicago Cubs, buoyed by a heritage that had the poem “Tinker to Evers to Chance” in the minds of fans everywhere, had seen the Frank Chance era end in 1912, followed by a stretch of mostly… Continue Reading
From the New York Times bestselling author of Munson and Pinstripe Empire, Casey Stengel is the definitive biography of baseball’s greatest character. There was nobody like Casey before him, and no one like him since. For more than fifty years,… Continue Reading
Earle Combs went back to the second year of Yankee Stadium, 1924, and had a stellar career there when the vastness of the real estate was much greater than it came to be under DiMaggio. Earle Combs, the first Yankee… Continue Reading
The death in December 2015 of New York–based sportswriter Phil Pepe saddened the city’s baseball community, including his devoted readers, who enjoyed his many years with the New York Daily News and his output of more than four dozen books. Some… Continue Reading
When one-time relief-ace Andrew Bailey took the mound for the New York Yankees this past summer, much was made of it being his first Major League appearance in two years. Well, Paul Schreiber went 22 years between appearances in a Major… Continue Reading
Strangers in the Bronx DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard By Andrew O’Toole, Foreword by Marty Appel MY FAVORITE STORY FROM 1951 INVOLVES THE “BOBBY THOMSON” game and one Yogi Berra. The ’51 season featured a terrific American League pennant race,… Continue Reading
3/23/2016 Tony Guida interviews long-time New York Yankees PR guru, sports tv producer, and sports author, Marty Appel. Appel tells many stories about Yankees legends and discusses his many books, among them “Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the… Continue Reading
March 3, 2016: Marty Appel – former Public Relations director for the Yankees – gives Ed his firsthand account of quite possibly the strangest trade in Major League history when Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich decided to swap… Continue Reading
Splendor In The Bronx – Marty Appel Teaches Young Yankee Fans Pinstripe Pride Huffpost Sports 03/04/2016 01:04 pm ET by Michael Levin, NYT Bestselling Author, Amazon Kindle #1 Business Book Author; CEO, BusinessGhost.com, BooksAreMyBabies.com Marty Appel, the Yankee fan’s Yankee fan,… Continue Reading
Yogi Berra was himself to the end, friend says POSTED 2:32 PM, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015, by Dyrol Joyner WPIX-TV