hat’s why the only two times during his Steinbrenner’s four decades-long reign that the Yankees ever had truly great teams (the late 1970s and late 1990s) were when he was suspended from Major League Baseball, leaving the front office free of his bullying and meddling.
I’ve already taken Michelle Bachmann to task at this site once
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This is a re-posting of the guest blog I wrote for Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods. Many thanks to Josh for agreeing to trade blog posts this week. In case you missed it, here’s his contribution to this site. And make sure to check out Wilker’s outstanding memoir as well as his new book, a rhumination on The Bad News Bears. I. The Crown Prince
Guest blogger Josh Wilker is the author of the excellent memoir Cardboard Gods: An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, which is recently available in paperback. His very funny, smart, and heartfelt website is CardboardGods.net. I’m a friend of The Public Professor going back several years now. When I first met him he had just crossed 8th Street in Manhattan and entered the liquor store where I was working, and he was wearing a fedora, jeans, and an unzipped army jacket showing that he had neglected to put on a shirt. He also had a walking stick of some sort, which along with his scraggly goatee and shirtlessness lent him an air of vaguely lethargic malevolence. My first thought was to reach for the Jeff Burroughs Louisville Slugger we kept hanging from two nails behind the counter, but I refrained from brandishing the weapon when it became apparent that he was in the
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were successful receivers, such as Mike Ditka and Ron Kramer, mostly picked up yards in chunks while working the middle. But Mackey ran a 4.6 second 40-yard dash and he soon became a favorite deep target of Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas. Mackey used that speed and an aggressive running style to average over 15 yards per catch during his career, topping the 20 yard mark in two seasons. In 1966, he posted numbers that would make even Kellen Winslow and Antonio Gates blanch, scoring ten touchdowns, six of them going for more than 50 yards. In 1992, after waiting far too long, Mackey became only the second full-time tight end immortalized in the hallowed halls of Canton.
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