TakeHimDowntown.com » Outside the Lines http://takehimdowntown.com A Web site for baseball fans (especially Yankee fans) Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 In Memoriam http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/in-memoriam/ http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/in-memoriam/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:20:04 +0000 Dan McCourt http://takehimdowntown.com/?p=2603 View From 420b

Bronx, N.Y., July 13, 2010 — For a few, George Steinbrenner was a bad guy from the beginning, but most in New York were happy with The Boss once the Yanks quickly won the AL pennant three times and the World Series twice, in 1977 and 1978. But people were crazed about things even then, among all the winning. Bringing in Catfish was a solid plus, but Reggie was disruptive from the

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The music you grow up with is part of your DNA, and for me the brothers

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We experienced the only high side (aside from all the hilarious late night fodder we had for weeks) of the ending of the Conan O’Brien stint on the Tonight Show when guitarist Jimmy Vivino joined the Al Kooper 66th birthday celebration at B.B. King’s Friday night. Jimmy, member of the seminal New York band Prisoners of 2nd Avenue, one fourth of the excellent Beatles cover band the Fab

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]]> http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/concert-theater/love-the-tarrytown-music-hall/feed/ 0 Levon Helm on Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/concert-theater/levon-helm-on-spectacle-elvis-costello-with/ http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/concert-theater/levon-helm-on-spectacle-elvis-costello-with/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:32:28 +0000 SueC http://takehimdowntown.com/?p=841 Elvis Costello with... Levon Helm, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, and Allen Toussaint

Had the privilege of being in the audience for the taping — it was quite a special experience. If you get the Sundance Channel, be sure to check this episode out. You won’t be sorry…

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(John Wiley & Sons, 366 pages)

Bronx, N.Y., April 15, 2009 — You can almost sympathize with author Peter Golenbock when reading his just published biography of the Yankee owner titled George (John Wiley & Sons, 366 pages). In the preface, he shares with us that he was always a diehard Yankee fan, and that he was given access to the Yankee archives while doing research for his first book, Dynasty, a look at

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