Ben Monroe pitched a complete game and collected two hits to help lead Ranieri & Long/Coleman Insurance to a 14-3 win to start a Joe DiMaggio League baseball doubleheader sweep of the Vallejo Spartans on Saturday.
My backyard neighbor Tom McNicholas sent me an e-mail the other day, and Tom — once a Brooklyn boy and lifetime Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the “Borough of Kings” — asked me if I knew about a book that was written on how my beloved New York Giants had stolen the 1951 National League pennant from “Dem Bums” from Brooklyn.