• ’20 Fantasy Baseball Draft

    There may not be any Major League Baseball in 2020. As the world recovers from a pandemic, we are left to wonder what could have been. Sports fans like myself are left to watch highlights of classic games or binge-watch all the Netflix programs we put off during the season.  I miss baseball just like…

  • Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss

    Book Summary: Pinstripe Empire is the official/unofficial history of the New York Yankees. This book may be the most in-depth look back at 100 years of Yankees baseball, told by former team public relations director Marty Appel. The New York Yankees were born on January 4, 1903, some 117 years ago. In over a century of…

  • ’19 Fantasy Baseball Wrap-Up

    We didn’t finish in the last place! That is totally worth celebrating!!  Fantasy baseball finished up with a 9-0 blow out loss to the defending league champions ItsRyanNotRyne. Neither one of us made the playoffs in 2020, so we met in the first round of the consolation bracket. The playoffs are not what this post…

  • ’19 Pinstripe Bowl Season Recap

    Pinstripe Bowl joined Ladies and Edelman for their inaugural season in 2019. For those of you who are new to us, we used to be Dawn of the Patriots, who were born in 2014. For the first four seasons, our fantasy football home was on NFL.com, where we lost in the Championship in season one.…

  • ’19 NFL Pick’em Season Recap

    Once Upon a Time in New England entered their third season in the Rick Rolled Pick’em fantasy pool. After finishing in third place in 2017, we found ourselves in the last place in 2018, where we ended up again in 2019.  We followed two patterns from 2018, one was missing a week’s worth of picks…

  • ’19 NFL Pick’Em Week 17

    ’19 NFL Pick’Em Week 17

    Since we are going to finish in dead last, we decided to throw our week 17 picks out the window. There were 16 games on the schedule, and we selected the 16 underdogs. Once Upon a Time in NE Picks W – New York Jets (6%) @ Buffalo (94%) The Jets sucked on the road,…

  • ’19 Canyon of Heroes Season Recap

    In 2017 we joined our arena hockey pool as Tre Kronor. Our draft strategy that season was to only select players who were from Sweden. The formula worked out pretty well, considering we finished in third place and only lost in the semi-finals because our goalies didn’t play enough games. We followed the same exact…

  • Chumps to Champs

    Book Summary: The New York Yankees won the World Series four times between 1996-2000. This book is the story of the New York Yankees of the 1990s, who were the worse team in baseball for a brief period. I didn’t entirely understand why Chumps to Champs opened with Andy Hawkin’s no-hitter on July 1, 1990. No-hitters…

  • The New York Yankees of the 1950s

    Book Summary: Five straight World Series Championships, Eight American League Pennants, and a boatload of personal hardware for many of its players. The 1950’s New York Yankees were the cream of the crop of the sporting world. The glorious history of the New York Yankees can be traced back to the trade for Babe Ruth in…

  • Mickey Mantle: Inside and Outside the Lines

    Book Summary: Author Tom Molito shares the stories behind his personal and professional friendship with Mickey Mantle. I understand that writing a book is a challenging process. For some, it comes naturally. The ideas flow like rivers, and they can take those thoughts and quickly put them on paper. Someday I’d like to write back,…