Army will return to Yankee Stadium Saturday night to play Notre Dame for the first time since 1964. Of course, this isn’t the House that Ruth Built, this is the new Yankee Stadium, or should I say the House that $10 Beers Built. This match-up in the Bronx should rekindle memories of the early 20th-century when the two teams had to find bigger stadiums in New York rather than play at West Point to accommodate the crowds of more than 70,000 eager to watch the two college football powerhouses of that age. The New York Times’ Bill Pennington wrote a…
Browsing: Battle of the Bulge
Ralph Houk was a lucky man, in more ways than one. When Casey Stengel left the Yankees, Houk took over, winning World Series titles in his first two seasons — the first in the midst of the chaos of Maris’ and Mantle’s assault on the home-run record in 1961. But a main part of Houk’s legacy was away from the baseball field, and on the battlefield, where he survived some fierce fighting during his service. Houk, 90, died Wednesday at his home in Florida. The longtime manager of the Yanks, Tigers and Red Sox served in World War II in…
