Mel Allen

Even before things turned out as they did in Detroit, I was one who thought Lehigh Valley native Matt Millen made a mistake in leaving the broadcast booth. Working for CBS and Fox, Millen had become one of the best color analysts in the business. He...

Eli, Peyton Manning will have family reunion in Tampa New York-related sports media predictions for 2009: 1. Eli and Peyton Manning will face one another in Super Bowl XLIII, drawing in even more casual fans than usual and lifting the average...

One more oddity from the NBC telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game, then I'll leave it alone: Strangely, Vin Scully and Mel Allen referenced Larsen's as the second perfect-o in major league history, joining Charlie Robertson in 1922, now four......

I have discussed the MLB Network in general and the rerun of Don Larsen's perfect game both in the blog and in the newspaper in recent days. But I have much, much more to say! Click below . . .......

It was a concept in the works for years, but at last it was time for Major League Baseball to join the other major pro leagues with a network of its own, and it counted down the final half-minute in style: There were brief glimpses of players, one for...

The MLB Network officially debuts at 6 tonight in more than 50 million homes, making it the largest launch in the history of cable TV. The channel's first live program will be a one-hour studio show called "Hot Stove Live," followed by a replay of Don...

Here is a site where you can plug in your zip code to learn of channel locations for MLB Network, debuting 6 p.m. Thursday. The network will launch with its "Hot Stove Live" studio show, but the highlight will come......

Watching CSI: NY, I recognized the lead actor as the same person who, in Forrest Gump, played the lieutenant who lost both legs in the Vietnam War. I think his name is Gary Sinise. But the actor in CSI: NY seemed to have both legs. Is Sinise an amputee or...

Maybe it started when Pedro Martinez hit leadoff man Gerald Williams eight years ago and eight players got ejected. Petey nearly threw a no-hitter that night at Tropicana Field, but he was a no-show when Greg Vaughn invited him out to the parking lot to...

How about this? University of Alabama law school grad Melvin Israel was on a week's vacation to New York in 1937 when he interviewed for a radio job at CBS and wound up, after working and living in Gotham's environs the rest of his life, on a plaque in...

Check out this rare video snippet from Don Larsen's 1956 perfect game, in which Duke Snider nearly ruins history, as called by Mel Allen. Pretty cool. Even cooler is that on July 10, for the first time, the only known......

Sportscaster Curt Gowdy, the voice of NBC Sports for a decade in the 1960s and '70s and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, has died. Gowdy died of leukemia Monday (Feb. 20) at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 86. After making his...