31 Results for babe ruth

The market for Miguel Cabrera

Buster Olney

The Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning. Set aside, for a momen...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Lee's calm is the Yankees' storm

Buster Olney

We are accustomed to seeing October tension reflected in the eyes of the pitchers. Orel Hershiser's eyes in 1988 were intense -- the Bulldog locked in...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2009

The top matchups of the World Series

Buster Olney

These are my top matchups of the World Series, beyond the battle of old friends CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee: The Yankees' hitters against Cliff Lee's f...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 28, 2009

La Russa may be leaving St. Louis

Buster Olney

Nobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 11, 2009

Giambi helps keep Rockies relaxed, rolling

Buster Olney

Maybe it is Yorvit Torrealba who has earned the honor of wearing Jason Giambi's Golden Thong, after Torrealba's ninth-inning three-run double gave the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2009

Rice swung and missed on Jeter

Buster Olney

On a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009

Money for nothin'

Buster Olney

...the Philadelphia Athletics in the early part of the 20th century to Boston's sale of Babe Ruth, and there have been extraordinary trades driven by money, from Oakland's trade of Vida Blue...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2009

Baseball's week of U-turns

Buster Olney

...by Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez (2005), Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio (1936), and Gehrig and Babe Ruth (1927). Rodriguez, whose 15th-inning home run broke up a scoreless tie to beat the Red...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009

New Yankee Stadium on steroids?

Buster Olney, ESPN.com

The New York Yankees might have a serious problem on their hands: Beautiful new Yankee Stadium appears to be a veritable wind tunnel that is rocketing balls over the fences.

Story | Conversation | April 18, 2009

A night to celebrate stars

Buster Olney

New York's baseball writers dinner is an enormous event, with the major award winners on hand to accept their trophies. Willie Weinbaum, a colleague o...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 26, 2009

Winners and losers from Yanks' signing of Teixeira

Buster Olney

...Mack's sale of the Philadelphia Athletics' stars early in the 20th century. The sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees. The trade of Jackie Robinson from the Dodgers to the Giants, which led...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 24, 2008

Big Name Player

Buster Olney

Forget about those guys on the left side of the Yankees' infield. Robinson Canó, heir to multiple legacies, is fast becoming the best player in pinstripes

Story | Conversation | October 06, 2008

Yankees' future rides on Cashman's decision

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

The Steinbrenners apparently want Brian Cashman to stay. But whatever decision the Yankees' GM makes will be critical to the direction of the franchise.

Story | Conversation | September 20, 2008

Cano on fast track to Yankee greatness

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Forget about those guys on the left side of the infield. Robinson Cano, heir to multiple legacies, is fast becoming the best player in pinstripes.

Story | Conversation | April 13, 2007

Welcome to the Hall ... of Shame

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Barry Bonds appears to have chosen a different ending for his reality show than the one that was originally planned.

Story | Conversation | March 07, 2006