Tom Keegan
The Archive
SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH MIKE
August 8, 2002 | 4:00amA LOT has changed in the world since the summer of 1996. For one thing, the Yankees have been to five World Series and won four. For another, Mike Mussina...
KANSAS CITY, TIME NO MATCH FOR ROG
August 8, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Royals 2MOST of us turn 40 and we start complaining about how difficult it is to tie our shoes. We pop aspirin to quiet howling lower backs....
DOUBLEDAY'S SUIT COULD DOOM SELIG
August 7, 2002 | 4:00amBASEBALL cooks its books to hide profits and exaggerate losses. The charge is nothing new. Baseball players, agents, and union officials have maintained as much for years. And with each...
AMAZIN'S JUST AREN'T THAT GOOD
August 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE 2002 Mets, survived by millions of fans, died yesterday. The open-casket wake will be at 1:10 p.m. today at Shea Stadium. Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks will be...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
August 4, 2002 | 4:00amSTEP BY STEPFORD Gene doping next wave in creating super athletes You thought steroids or Human Growth Hormone was the end of the story. It's only the beginning. The next...
THERE'S AN AMAZIN' LACK OF PRIDE
July 31, 2002 | 4:00amAstros 16 - Mets 3IMAGINE wearing the polished shoes of Steve Phillips. Imagine using those shoes to walk up to the office of Fred Wilpon. Knock, knock. "Who's there?" Wilpon...
METS ON EDGE OVER CLIFF - MUST BEAT OUT BOSOX, BRAVES FOR FLOYD
July 31, 2002 | 4:00amWAIVER trades made after today's 4 p.m. deadline can be blocked by general managers not wanting to be yelled at by their bosses for not getting the player who ended...
SEASON GETTING SERIOUS AT SHEA
July 29, 2002 | 4:00amMO VAUGHN didn't slide into home plate as much as he collapsed on it from exhaustion, scoring from first on pal John Valentin's double. Roger Cedeno leaped at the warning...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
July 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHREE'S COMPANY: BIG APPLE COULD BE THREE-TEAM BASEBALL TOWN ONCE MORE The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants are gone for good, but the glory days of three baseball teams...
A SPLENDID DAY FOR THE SPLINTER - FANS FLOCK TO FENWAY FOR FAREWELL TO WILLIAMS
July 23, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Inside, they were walking around the warning track, paying respects to a frozen legend, dropping flowers under the gigantic No. 9 Red Sox jersey pinned to the outfield...
BEANTOWN CALLS TIME & REVISITS A LEGEND
July 23, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Peter Gammons, the conscience of baseball in New England for all these decades, interviewed one dignitary after another from chairs in front of home plate as 25,000 spectators...
BOMBERS WIN BATTLE, BUT MAY LOSE RIVERA
July 21, 2002 | 4:00amFOR Yankee fans among the 55,526 at the Stadium yesterday, watching Mariano Rivera walk off the mound in the middle of the eighth inning, stride for stride with trainer Gene...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
July 21, 2002 | 4:00amHome Alone Long Islander Dick Collins, the first photographer for the Mets before becoming the official shooter of the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, mourns the loss of his good...
BOSTON OWNERSHIP'S PINK SOX ARE SHOWING
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBY THE time new owners Tom Werner and John Henry get done with their subtle dismantling of the Red Sox, the team might want to consider changing its name to...
NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT 2003
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amSO much of the talk about these dreadful Mets has centered on what man or woman (take that, correctoids!) should be in charge of resurrecting them in the dugout, the...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amDoubleday To Wilpon ...Get A-Rod! Everyone is familiar with the differences between Mets co-owners Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon. They are suing each other, thus making official their mutual antipathy....
SHOW THEM THE MONEY! THAT'LL GIVE 'ALL-SCARS' INCENTIVE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Ted Williams must have rolled over in his ice block. A tie? In the All-Star Game? Both managers running out of players after 11 innings? What? Commissioner Bud...
FINAL OUTCOME PAR FOR SELIG'S COURSE
July 10, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - This was to be the shining moment of Bud Selig's baseball career: The All-Star Game in his hometown, in the beautiful ballpark he lobbied to build. It couldn't...
SORIANO'S SMILE BRIGHTENS GLOOMY FORECAST
July 10, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Blinding rain pelted this city Monday night, which sent organizers of the various social events surrounding baseball's All-Star Game into a panic. Walkie-talkies were beeping all over the...
SOMEBODY SHOULD PUT SLUGGER'S 'GHOULISH' KID ON ICE
July 9, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE. ANYONE considering purchasing the DNA of Ted Williams from his son, the Splendid Minter, ought to consider this: John Henry Williams inherited half of his DNA from Ted and...