Where were you on Oct. 9, 1996, when ‘the kid’ reached into fair territory and caught Derek Jeter’s right field homer during Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series?
You remember the drive when the Yankees trailed the Orioles 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning. Derek Jeter hit a deep fly [...]

Jamie D’Antona (star of Jim Collins’ book, “The Last Best League”) is re-discovered this week on the latest Baseball America podcast by John Manuel (my favorite baseball writer).
Manuel, a top observer of the Cape league, says he believes D’Antona – who has bounced around professional baseball since his days on the Cape (most [...]

A CodBall reader on Friday alterted us in his post about an “interesting” change in the Cotuit Ketleers’ 2007 roster. It seems that Cotuit has taken for its own a 2006 Y-D Red Sox player – Mike Bianucci, a left-fielder for Auburn.
Bianucci batted .258 last season for Yarmouth. From the look of his stats [...]