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Lenny Wilkens Sportstalkny 11/10/13 by MARK ROSENMAN

1981 Sports Phone Strat O Matic Report Marv Albert by MARK ROSENMAN

WOR Lost promo Tape 1967 Mets Chuck Hiller and Harvey Haddix by MARK ROSENMAN

In 1952, baseball legend Ralph Kiner stepped out of the batter’s box and into the recording studio for Columbia Records’ Playtime Series — a set of instructional 78 RPM records designed to teach kids the fundamentals of the game. Kiner’s contribution, simply titled “Hitting” (PV-800), captures his easy charm, straightforward wisdom, and love of baseball’s purest art: making good contact. Long befo...

IMPRACTICAL JOKERS Q AND MURR by MARK ROSENMAN

The New York Mets drafted Neil Allen out of Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in the eleventh round of the 1976 Major League Baseball draft. In just his second professional season he went 10-2 with a 2.79 earned run average and led the Carolina League with 126 strikeouts with the Lynchburg Mets He came up with the Mets as a starting pitcher in 1979, and he made his major league debut...

Step back in time with this exclusive audio from Kiner's Korner, featuring a captivating interview with baseball legends Casey Stengel and Ralph Kiner. Courtesy of Archival Television Audio, the largest vintage TV soundtrack archive in the world, this recording offers a unique glimpse into the world of baseball in the 1960s. In this interview, Stengel shares humorous and insightful stories about h...

**Archived Interview with Fritz Peterson - June 7, 2010** In this special archived interview from June 7, 2010, we revisit a captivating conversation with the late Fritz Peterson, a legendary New York Yankees pitcher. Known not only for his prowess on the mound but also for an unconventional and highly publicized family swap with a teammate, Peterson left an indelible mark on baseball history. Thr...

Bud Harrelson, the scrappy, glove-first shortstop on the 1969 Miracle Mets, third-base coach for the 1986 World Series-winning team and later the club’s manager, and who tangled with Pete Rose in one of the wildest brawls in baseball history, died Wednesday in East Northport, New York. He was 79. Aj and I had the honor of having him on our show in 2012 here is an amazing 35 minutes with Buddy RIP...

Burt Young made his name playing rough-edged working class Italian-American characters, the best-known example being his signature role as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law Paulie in Rocky (1976), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is one of three actors (Sylvester Stallone, and Tony Burton being the other two) who have appeared in every Rocky film. He has pl...

Dick Butkus possessed a desire to excel that few have equaled. He played as the Chicago Bears' middle linebacker for nine years with only one goal in mind – to be the best, and from the very start, he was just that. In his rookie season, Butkus, a first-round draft choice, had only one challenger for National Football League Rookie of the Year honors, teammate Gale Sayers. That same year Butkus wa...

Brooks Robinson was a third baseman who played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977. Nicknamed "the Human Vacuum Cleaner", "Mr. Hoover", and "Mr. Oriole", he is generally considered to have been the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history. An 18-time All-Star, he won 16 consecutive Gold Glove Awards, setting a record later tied by Jim Kaat and broken by Gr...

Today's Kinerskorner.com Vintage game is from 7/25/69: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196907250.shtml Lindsey Nelson (PBP) 1-2/5-6 Ralph Kiner (PBP) 3-4 Bob Murphy (PBP) 7-9

From the SPORTSTALKNY Time Machine 2/8/2102 Conn Smythe Trophy winner Jonathan Narchessault as a member of the Hartford Wolfpack joined Mark and AJ

From the SPORTSTALKNY Archives From his 1963 television appearance on "The Jackie Gleason Show"Pasquale Caputo, aka Pat Cooper, enthralled standing room only audiences with his lovable "comedic anger."For nearly four decades Pat appeared on many stages, from comedy clubs to major theaters, including the legendary Copacabana, Westbury Music Theater, Trump Castle, Caesar's Palace, the MGM Grand Hote...

Wally Backman talks about Daniel Murphy and the fact that he feels right now Murphy would be the New York Mets Best DH.

Interview from the archives of Mark Rosenman and Howie Karpin You Never Forget your First : A Collection of New York Mets Firsts with Hobie Landrith from 9/20/20 when Hobie was 90 years old

Jeff Pearlman is one of our generation's best  sports writers He has written nine books that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list: . He was the author of the infamous 1999 John Rocker interview in Sports Illustrated. The HBO Series, “Winning Time,” is based  on his 2014 book Showtime :Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. His Latest book The Last Fo...

Larry Csonka is a former fullback and Super Bowl MVP who played for the Miami Dolphins, and briefly with the New York Giants. He is a Hall of Famer and two-time Super Bowl Champion He is a member of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, whose undefeated 17-0 season was named the best team in NFL history. He is also the author of a great new book Head On A memoir which pulls back the curtain to share how the Do...

Authors Howie Karpin and Mark Rosenman appear on Ed Randall's iconic Talking Baseball show to talk about You Never Forget Your FIrst: A Collection of New York Mets Firsts, available on Amazon or markrosenman.com

Tom McMillen was a star basketball player at every level imaginable. In 1970, he was the number one high school basketball player in the U.S. He would go on to play college ball under legendary Coach Lefty Driesell for the University of Maryland Terrapins from 1971 to 1974,He was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team that lost a controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union. A...

Ron Shelton was a former minor league baseball infielder in Baltimore's Orioles farm system, where he played with the Bluefield Orioles, Stockton Ports, Florida Instructional League Orioles, Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs and Rochester Red Wings from 1967 through 1971..he is however best known for the many films he has made about sports. His 1988 film Bull Durham, based in part on his own baseball experi...

Steve Dillon was a left-handed pitcher whose professional career lasted for four seasons (1962–1965), including major league stints with the 1963 and 1964 New York Mets. He was born in Yonkers, NY and was initially signed by the New York Yankees where he had a 14–7  record for the 1962 Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the Class D Florida State League, striking out 196 batters in 169 innings pitched, wit...

Travis Jankowski has appeared in 470 major league games, 43 of them this season with the New York Mets. He has also played for the San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, , and Seattle Mariners.he attended Stony Brook University on a partial baseball scholarship. During his junior year, he helped take Stony Brook to a Cinderella appearance in the 2012 College World Series. That s...

Rod Strickland grew up in the Bronx, While a junior he led Truman High School in Co-Op City to the state championship and was ranked as one of the top 10 high school recruits in the nation. He was a college star at DePaul University where he appeared in 87 games. As a junior, he was a First Team All-American A 1987 and 1988 All-America pick,He helped lead the Blue Demons to three-straight NCAA Tou...