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Robinson Championed Republican Tickets
Midtown Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel has announced its permanent closure after more than 96 years in operat ...
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Mets Fueled Mayor’s Come-from-Behind Bid
Last year, New York Times bestselling author Wayne Coffey enthralled a group of New York Sports Tours guests wit ...
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#OvertimeNY Reveals Sports Time Jumps
In October 1939, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gave New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig an office job ...
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Overturned Election Stoked Yankees
When he was running for New York City mayor in 1903, former New York City police chief Bill Devery teamed with fe ...
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Winged Foot Teed Up ‘Mulligan’ as Do-Over
Dave Mulligan’s legacy is deep. Born David Bernard Mulligan in Canada in 1871, Mulligan would become ...
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Gibson’s Harlem Tennis Roots Revisited
Years after she had moved from her childhood apartment building of 135 West 143rd Street in the Harlem section of ...
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New York Sports Lit Notre Dame Lore
Former New York Jets head coach Lou Holtz was a featured speaker at last week’s Republican National Convent ...
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Babe Ruth ‘Crashed’ DNC After Riot
Although newspapers documented the behavior of Babe Ruth for years, headlines about the New York Yankees legend f ...
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This Broadway Joe Revolutionized Bowling
New York City’s first public indoor bowling action in months started today, with the state allowing bowling ...
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DiMaggio to City: Be Tough in This Crisis
When New York City was being hammered by a fiscal crisis in 1978, legendary New York Yankees centerfielder Joe Di ...
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‘New York Styles America’ at 1920 MSG
A unique look at the second of Manhattan’s four Madison Square Garden buildings graced artwork 100 years ag ...
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New York Sport Triggered NRA’s Rise
New York State Attorney General Letitia James today announced the state’s intention to dissolve the Nationa ...
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Pete Hamill Kept Love of Baseball
Known to many in baseball for his love and loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pete Hamill died today at age 85 in his ...
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Outerbridge Crosses Tennis History
To guard travelers against the high winds of tropical storm Isaias yesterday, the Staten Island Ferry and the mas ...
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Rackets Give Fraley Untouchable Legacy
In January 1961, when amateur events dominated the top tier of competitive tennis, including the tournament now k ...
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NFL’s Staten Island Team Started Strong
In National Football League (NFL) news on this day in 1929, the league added a team based in the Stapleton neighb ...
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Opening Day View Shut 125 Years Ago
When the New York Yankees open their Major League Baseball season today in Washington, D.C., under Covid-19 measu ...
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Artificial Crowd Noise Hit Nets in 1997
Major League Baseball season opens today with many teams planning to play simulated crowd audio as their stands r ...
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Brown Oldest New York World Series Champ
On October 14, 1947, 22-year-old Yankees third baseman Bobby Brown studies science at Tulane University, eight da ...
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‘Bronx Cheers’ Hit Baseball Commissioner
Albert (Happy) Chandler, who resigned as the second commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) on this day in 19 ...
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Yankees GM Knows Steinbrenner’s Value
George Steinbrenner died ten years ago this week after making a major impact as the principal owner and managing ...
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Redskins Name Drop Recalls New York
Today’s announcement by the National Football League’s Washington franchise to drop its Redskins nick ...
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Emotional Virtual Tour Now On Demand
Many who were aboard or missed New York Sports Tours’ first live virtual tour experience have requested vid ...
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Columbia Football Stoppage Echoes 1905
This week, the Ivy League became the first NCAA Division I conference to announce that it will not have further sports ...
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Sports Pioneers Eased New York Riots
Gymnastics Venue Known as the Turnverein Ignited Athletic Movement in 19th Century In a 19th century engr ...
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Breakthrough Game Turns 150
On Tuesday, June 14, 1870, a sultry day by most measures, residents of the then-city of Brooklyn were ready when their ...
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Virtual Tour to Deliver Yankees Exclusive
New York Sports Tours’ celebrated sports history tour experience is back in season, in virtual form with a New ...
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Live Sports Hidden in Grand Central Loft
In 1945, CBS televises amateur boxing competition from Grand Central’s third-floor studio space More than 7 ...
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May 1920 Fight Law Still Packs Punch
The Walker Law paved the way for such fights as this 1923 Yankee Stadium heavyweight affair won by Luis Angel Firpo (lef ...
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Metro Sports Events Bear 9,500+ Pro Wins
This view was captured during a New York Sports Tours private outing at Citi Field in Queens on July 26, 2019, at a Maj ...
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Sports Tell History of New York Bus Tours
City’s Sightseeing Rides Hold Deep Lineage from “Rubberneck Wagons” to New York Sports Tours ...
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Fischler Turns 88 with Storied Career
Many guests aboard New York Sports Tours’ sports history tour experience have shared high praise of Stan Fischl ...
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NBA Refines New York Esports History
Nets GC competes in preseason NBA 2K League competition in 2019 Brooklyn Nets’ Nets GC Team Helps Fill Spor ...
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Sports Delivered 1918 Pandemic Warning
Some baseball players in 1918 used gauze masks in an effort to thwart the Spanish flu. New York Metropolitan Spor ...
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Tour Revisits Program from 49 Years Ago
The championship boxing match known as The Fight of the Century, staged 49 years ago today at New York’s M ...
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Rare Gehrig Speech Outtakes Featured
Parts of a rare reel of film from Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day in 1939 at New York City’s Yankee Stadium ar ...
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CCNY Basketball Drama Set for Dinner
A special edition of New York Sports Tours’ sports history tour experience on Sunday, March 15, includes ...
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Hippodrome Film Premieres for Guests
A brief documentary on the Hippodrome, a now-defunct theater that stood in Midtown Manhattan and served as home of prof ...
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Alcindor Trophy Added to Tour Collection
New York Sports Tours’ tour guests have the opportunity to hold many items from New York sports history, i ...
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New Post-Tour Dinner Holds Garden View
New York Sports Tours has introduced new options for guests, including a tour experience that features post-dinn ...
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