Articles by Joe Scotchie

Remembering Yankee Stadium On Its Centennial It was 100 years ago this month that the most famous stadium in America was built. The original Yankee Stadium is no more. A new ballpark sits across River […]

Roberto Clemente was almost a Brooklyn Dodger. The man could have played in the same lineup as Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Carl Furillo, Roy Campanella and later, as a Los Angeles Dodger, […]

Can rock stars write good books? I don’t mean ghost-written efforts. There was Dylan’s own Chronicles, a two-volume book that lurched from one drab sentence to another. Add to that George Harrison’s I, Me, Mine, […]

There are plenty of mossbacks out there who miss the age of print. Who can forget The New York Daily News of the 1970s or The New York Post of the 1980s and ‘90s?For The […]

No one knows when the moniker “Gold Coast” came into being. If the 1920s represented the first decade of the modern era, then you say can it was also the decade when Long Island’s North […]

Review of: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen The novelist Jonathan Franzen is a bird watcher, so much so that he published a book on his passion, The End of the End of The Earth. While celebrating […]

Brown starred in both lacrosse and football at Syracuse University.(Contributed Photo) In some respects, Jim seems to be a rebel without a cause, an angry young man unclear about what angers him, He is an […]

W. Averell Harriman, photo taken in early 1940s. (Wikimedia Commons) Being governor of New York is one of the most high-profile positions in American politics. There was a time when holding that job made one […]

Jack Kerouac (Tom Palumbo/CC BY-SA 2.0) It’s 2022 and “the twos” have it. First, the centennial of Ulysses, then The Wasteland and now that of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the famed novelist of On The Road, […]