Joe DiMaggio

What the Manager Who Verbally Abused Jackie Robinson Has to Do With Valdimir Nabokov

If you've seen 42, no doubt one of the more memorable scenes is when Philadelphia Phillies manager Ben Chapman heaps verbal slurs on Jackie Robinson in a 1947 game. The incident actually happened, and it shortened Chapman's career even though the two posed for photographers shortly afterwards to sh ... More >>

Remembering Stan Musial

It's a truism that American men are first conscious of their own mortality when their fathers die, but I would argue that such consciousness is a process for the average American male that usually begins earlier, the men pictured on his baseball cards start dying. When I was a kid in 1963, Stan Mus ... More >>

Hero Sandwiches Named After Italian Stars Are Sold In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Joint

My old neighborhood not only teems with good Italian food, but they got wit too. At Lioni's, they hawk dozens upon dozens of heroes, each named after an Italian-American celebrity and each one described with a cute little quip.

Marilyn Monroe Loved The Lesbians!

Marilyn Monroe has always been a gay icon, but did you know that the screen siren loved the gays right back? A new book called Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret tells the story of Jane Lawrence--Marilyn's fan club president at Fox--as written by author Tony Jerris. According to the book, when Jane ... More >>

Say It Ain't Mo

And so it ends with a bang and a whimper. No Yankee great's departure has ever caused anything like the shock to the system New York fans are now experiencing. I'm hearing from some, "Well, what about Thurman Munson's death?" A shock, yes, but let's be honest, Munson wasn't loved. Certainly his l ... More >>

Derek Jeter: What Are the Yankees Going to Do With Him?

​Derek Jeter is my favorite player -- that is, my family's favorite player. I have played the 3,000th-hit homer over and over. It is my favorite baseball moment of the new century, with the possible exception of Johnny Damon's race to third base in the World Series against the Phillies. Now, ... More >>

Willie Mays Turns 80, and He's STILL Not the Greatest Player Ever

​Willie Mays turned 80 on Friday, and, as happens every few years, there was another shower of praise for Willie and testimonials to his having been the greatest player in baseball history. With every year Willie's stature grows, partly because he was fabulous and very well could have been th ... More >>

Derek Jeter The Best NY Athlete of All Time? Really?

​In 1975, a survey representing America's biggest rock and roll stations asked several thousand listeners to name the greatest rock and roll record of all time. The Beatles, you might guess? Stones? Beach Boys? Stevie Wonder? Maybe Elvis? Or The Supremes? None of the above. According to those ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

And proud of it

Westway, the Highway That Tried to Eat New York, Defeated 25 Years Ago This Week

​The Saw Mill, the Bronx River, and parts of the FDR were closed due to flooding this morning thanks to the monsoon that kicked in before dawn. But the West Side Highway, a.k.a. the Joe DiMaggio? Traffic is flowing fine there, thanks in large part because we never built Westway, the crazed mul ... More >>

Best Atlantic City & Vicinity Eats: White House Sub Shop

​Cheesecake at the sub shop: As we rose to leave, a bevy of Miss America candidates burst in the door, beaming. In its emphasis on gambling and the general encouragement of vice, our own Atlantic City is the spitting image of Vegas; in fact, many of the casinos have the same names. But in one ... More >>

Vic Ziegel, One of the Best

Ziegel​Vic Ziegel of the New York Daily News died Friday, July 23 of lung cancer, still young at 72. He was one of the good guys. When I started regularly for the Village Voice in the mid-1980s, Ziegel was one of the few writers from a New York daily to accept me as a colleague when I'd se ... More >>

Legendary Yankees Announcer Bob Sheppard Dead at 99

​Nicknamed "The Voice of God," Sheppard started working for the New York Yankees in 1951, when the starting lineup included Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio. (The Yankees won the World Series that year, over the New York Giants.) Sheppard served as stadium announcer, chiefly calling players up to b ... More >>

Willie Mays Needs a Tiebreaker From These Clowns?

​Anyone out there feel as cheated by the final regular position episode of The Lineup as I did? The segment on center fielders was really the only one worth doing; the winners at the other positions -- Yogi Berra at catcher, Lou Gehrig at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Derek Jeter at short, ... More >>

Dave Winfield? 'The Lineup' Goes Off the Tracks

​After gimmes at catcher (Yogi Berra), first base (Lou Gehrig), second base (Jackie Robinson), third base (Alex Rodriguez) and shortstop (Derek Jeter), MSG's The Lineup lost all credibility last night when they picked Dave Winfield as New York baseball's all-time best left fielder. First of ... More >>

Derek Jeter Best Shortstop, but Where's at Least a Mention of Jose Reyes?

​Like the Huffington Post on steroids, MSG's weekly show The Lineup continues to tell us what we already know. In the first four episodes we were told that the best catcher in New York baseball history was Yogi Berra, the best first baseman Lou Gehrig, the best second baseman Jackie Robinson ... More >>

Where's the Suspense in Picking New York's All-Time Baseball Lineup?

​We just watched the second episode of MSG's The Lineup, which airs Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. and repeats throughout the week, and aside from the fun of watching clips of old ballplayers, we're kind of wondering what the point is. The Lineup's panel -- former players Gary Carter and Sparky Lyle ... More >>

Jockbeat: How Important Was Don Fehr to Baseball?

The late great Dodgers and Yankees announcer Red Barber once called Major League Baseball Players Association founder Marvin Miller "one of the three most important men in baseball history, right up there with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson." (Branch Rickey, who brought Robinson into baseball and cre ... More >>

Always a Bridesmaid: Mets Opening Day

Hot Dog With Relish

Cyclones put Markowitz on a bobblehead doll. Now he'll pop up even more.

Diamonds are Forever

Rudy Giuliani downplays the value of his jewelry collection

Your Turn: Where the Yankees Spend Big

Atlas Slugged

Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest Yankees ever. And the whole world is on his back?

Great White Mope

Brad Mehldau gets over himself with assists from Monk, Cole Porter, and a saxophone

Secrets and Thighs

A history of celebrity sex tapes, real and fake, from Joan Crawford to Paris Hilton

The Best Red Sportswriter

Commie Columnist Lester Rodney's Fight for Jackie Robinson

The Era of the Darn Good

Where Have You Gone, All You Young Joe DiMaggios?

Bronx Clash

A Contractor's Commission Payment Sparks Probe

Mr. Coffee? Mr. Freeze Dried?

DiMaggio or Williams: Pick One

Say Hey! The Results of Our Quiz

The Winners? Brian Calandra and Willie Mays.

The First Annual Cryogenic Baseball Quiz

Figure Out These Freeze Frames of History and Win a Prize or Two

Jock Lit

Meet the Yets

The Best of New York Baseball

Three Kings

Bob Sheppard, Eddie Layton, and Robert Merrill Are Yankee Stadium Royalty

Hey Joe

The Booing of the Great DiMaggio

A Woman’s Place

Jane Chastain, Sports Broadcasting Trailblazer

Subway Summary

Fleshing Out the Details of a Dynasty

Muddy Waters

Mets Skipper Bobby Valentine Looks to Navigate the Playoffs and His Own Demeanor

Letters

Desperate Men and Twisted Sisters

Home Away From Home

A Yankee Fan's History of Fenway Park

Men's Wear Daily

Style on the Diamond Is Ever Changing

Jocklit

Surveying the Boys of Summer Books

Open Season

Luck Be a Yankee Tonight

Letters

Your Name Here

Legend in the Gray Flannel Suit

Joseph Paul Dimaggio, 1914-1999

Winners Take All

The Seventh Annual Village Voice Sportswriters Poll

Foul Balls