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This article looks at the New York Yankees baseball team and its need for a strong pitcher. The team has lost many of its starting pitchers to injuries and called up Phil Hughes from the minor leagues to step in. Hughes is considered the best pitching prospect in all of minor league baseball. Hughes will make his major league debut pitching against the Toronto Blue Jays.

This article describes the experiences and the hopes of some of the Dominican Republic baseball players who play for the New York Yankees minor league team, the Staten Island Yankees. Francisco Castillo and others arrived in June to be placed in student living quarters in New York City and to be paid about $1,000 per month. To these young men it was much better than living in the poor conditions of the Dominican Republic. The chance of making it to Yankee Stadium are very slim for most of the players.

This article describes the baseball career of New York Yankees pitcher Aaron Small. After 16 years of bouncing around in major and minor league baseball, Small was ready to quit when he got a call from the Yankees. He responded with 10 wins and no losses. This year he reports to spring training with a signed contract for the first time in his career. He and his wife Macy aren't going to waste the money on a fancy sportscar, they just want to be able to pay for their home and provide security for their children.

The fate of the Islanders' long quest for another home may be decided on Aug. 1, when Nassau County residents will vote in a special referendum to approve or reject a $400 million bond issue to finance a new arena for the team. County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced the referendum at Nassau Coliseum, where the Islanders have a lease that expires after the 2014-15 season. The plan calls for roughly $350 million in bonds for a new arena, construction of which would begin in 2012 alongside the Coliseum. The other $50 million would go toward building a minor league baseball stadium on the site. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Richmond W. Benichak, 19, expects to graduate from New York University in 2013 with a sports management degree; this summer he is the finance intern for the Newark Bears, an independent minor league baseball team. His job, for which he is nominally paid, includes reconciling contracts with a stringent budget as well as monitoring game-night promotions like the wing-eating contest. Originally from Woodbridge, Conn., he sleeps in Queens and takes two classes at N.Y.U., but virtually lives at the ballpark in Newark. Boy of summer: I actually had heard of the Newark Bears. They play in the Atlantic League, and so do the Bridgeport Bluefish, and since I'm from Connecticut, I had seen the teams play a couple of times in Bridgeport. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the vast home clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter commands a locker in the back next to the doorway that leads to an inner sanctum that is off limits to most visitors. At the opposite end, across the blue carpet with the big white NY logo, Ramiro Pena dresses next to an exit that leads to the field, the grandstands, the minor leagues and the wide world beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since their inaugural season in 2001, the Brooklyn Cyclones have been a remarkable success story: locals have embraced the minor league club for returning baseball to the borough after a nearly half-century absence, as overflow crowds have poured into the Coney Island ballpark year after year. Winning has not hurt either: the Cyclones have missed the playoffs only three times in their nine-year history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this great, long, complex Shakespearean play of a baseball season, it is permissible and even delightful to take your eye off the Hamlets and the Lears, and focus instead on the role players who give the game its depth. In New York at the moment, we have a couple of catchers -- Francisco Cervelli and Omir Santos -- up from the minor leagues and doing far more than holding the fort. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on several matches to be played between the minor league baseball teams Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees in September 2007. One of the matches will be played at KeySpan Park in Coney Island, New York City on September 1, 2007. Another game will be held at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in Staten Island, New York State on September 4, 2007.

Several photographs of minor league baseball teams and baseball games in New York City are presented. One of the photographs shows the team members of DeCastro Traders posing together. Another photograph features the team members of the Harlem Spirit. One photograph shows the team members of the New York Amsterdam News Renaissance.

This article reports that the former Mets and Yankees baseball player, Darryl Strawberry, is now a roving hitting instructor in the Mets' minor baseball league system in New York. He received a standing ovation from the fans at a Brooklyn Cyclones game. Yes, there were drug problems and domestic issues, but Strawberry, who is clearly past his problems, is still adored by Mets fans who remember those great teams of the late 1980s. The way the fans still embrace Strawberry should not surprise anyone, because few teams excited the city of New York the way the Mets team did in the 1980s.

Reports that minor league baseball team New York Mets has signed veteran pitchers Scott Erickson, James Baldwin and Ricky Bottalico. Significance of the contracts to the team; Implication for young pitchers; Separate injury record of the three players.

Comments on the tearing down of the Thunderbolt roller coaster on Coney Island. Federal jury finding that the city had no right to tear down the landmark; Blame placed on former mayor, Rudy Guiliani who was trying to develop two minor-league stadiums, one of which would have stood directly beside the rusted coaster; How the officials determined the need to tear it down; Continuing lawsuits.

Focuses on the rivalry between the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball teams in New York City. Anticipation of their first game against each other in July 2001 for the first place in the McNamara Division of the Class A New York-Penn League; Publicity for the minor league game; Discussion of the rivalry between the teams and the fans.

Focuses on a minor-league baseball stadium which has been constructed in Brooklyn, New York. Discussion of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a single-A minor league team who will be based in the park; Outlook for the response of the community to the park.

Reports on the fans watching minor league baseball games in New York City. Attendance during the game of Queens Kings versus Pittsfield Mets; Construction of a baseball stadium in the area.

Focuses on the new Coney Island stadium for a minor league New York Mets franchise in New York City. Costs of the stadium; The groundbreaking ceremony which was held on August 22, 2000; Disagreements of stadium supporter Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Howard Golden, who opposes the deal; Details of the lease agreement between the city and the minor league franchise; Belief of Giuliani that the project will lead to economic development in the neighborhood.

Deals with the lawsuit filed against the stadium at the campus of Sainy John's University for tossing the Queens Kings, a minor league baseball club in New York City, New York. Details on the lawsuit.

Focuses on the near completion of a deal to construct what would be the United States' most expensive minor league baseball stadium in New York City, New York. Role of the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Details on the planned construction and its costs; Comments and criticism about the project; Outlook for benefits and problems.

Reports that New York City, New York officials and the New York Mets baseball team are dropping their plans to build a temporary stadium for a minor league team at the Parade Grounds in Brooklyn. Lawsuit field against the construction of the stadium by Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden; Initial opposition to the plans by a coalition of community groups; Sites being considered by the city and the Mets for the stadium.

Reports the reversal of a Brooklyn community group, which has changed its position to support a proposal by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to build a temporary stadium for a minor league Mets team in the Parade Grounds. History of the dispute which pitted the Brooklyn group and Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden against Giuliani; Reason for the group's reversal, including changes to the plans proposed by Giuliani; Golden's suit against Giuliani.

Provides information on the mascot of the minor league baseball team, Staten Island Yankees. Description of the mascot `Scooter the Holy Cow' and Fred Alvaro, the man inside the costume; Injuries from being `Scooter'; Character of Scooter; How Scooter became the team's mascot.

Focuses on the Staten Island Yankees team of the minor league baseball, affiliated to the New York Yankees team. Information on the team; Details on minor league baseball in the state; History of the team.