Deja Vu All Over Again
It is only May when I write this, so we are only at about the two-mile marker through this marathon that is a baseball season, but baseball in New York is the best in the league, actually in both leagues! The beginning of this season has reminded me of two books I’ve read over the past few years. The first being Mike Lupica’s and William Goldman’s fantastic recollection of the 1987 New York sports year named “Wait ‘Til Next Year.” The reasoning for that is both the Mets and Yankees have been great at the start of the season. New York doesn’t have the defending World Series champions in the city, but record wise, the city that never sleeps has two of the best teams in the American and National League. We have stars preforming in the bright lights and us fans are geared up for an exciting summer. The second book this season reminds me of is John Feinstein’s “Living on the Black” which details the 2007 season of two great pitchers in New York, Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine. Those two...