MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Without getting into the alleged corruption and clear sloppiness, or the politics and lust for power that is the base of it all, how can it be a surprise to anybody that Rudy Giuliani, the so-called America’s Mayor, is being described and portrayed – under Federal oath – the way…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was August 2, 1993, ironically the 14-year anniversary of the prominent Washington criminal attorney Edward Bennett Williams buying the Baltimore Orioles. That news was rightfully overshadowed that day by the news of the death of New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, who was killed in a crash while piloting…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports My memories of Joe Wolfe go all the way to the beginning – the beginning for me, that is. Thus, when I learned of his recent death it was with a great sense of melancholy and affection that I found myself in one of those wavy flashback-dream sequences that you…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was all too much for Maryland baseball to overcome for its dream season to continue into the NCAA super regionals – its battered pitching staff, its quaint but tiny home ballpark, a hot UConn offense and a questionable judgment call made by the umpire SEC baseball fans refer to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We lost a great man and friend in our community May 16 when Lee Schwartz died at the far too early age of 71. Certainly Lee always possessed and lived with a wise old soul even in his younger years, but it hardly seems fair that a man who had…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The consensus at the barber shop was it’s nothing personal; in fact, it’s a matter of great respect. But we’re tired of seeing the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. And there’s a very good reason for that – the Warriors have won three of the past seven NBA…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was an enormous weekend for University of Maryland athletics, as the baseball team was selected as the No. 15 seed in the NCAA Tournament as well as the top seed and the host school for one of the first-round regionals, the College Park Regional, for the first time in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We talked about some of the great, and not so great, big-league ballparks out there here on Thursday and kind of left it hanging for today to touch base with three of the very best and, certainly, most historic and grand – Fenway Park in Boston, Wrigley Field in Chicago…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I am very fortunate to have been able to visit many big-league ballparks, and many of the best ballparks in the big leagues, in my time – two in Baltimore, two in Pittsburgh, two in Washington, two in Cleveland, two in Philadelphia, Yankee Stadium, Fenway, Wrigley, Kansas City, St. Louis,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The $10 bleacher seats for last Thursday’s Yankees-Orioles matinee at Oriole Park were sold out, so our very able ticket purchaser instead secured us two Bob Uecker seats in one — dead center field, but also in the front rowwww … Overlooking the playing field atop the batter’s eye wall…
