Mike Vaccaro
Background
Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for the New York Post since November 2002. In that time he has written about every important sporting event and sports figure in New York City and covered 18 Super Bowls, 12 World Series, 10 Final Fours and 10 BCS Championship Games. He has been recognized three times as Newꦿ York Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association and was recognized in 2017 by the New York Press Club for his deadline work. A 1989 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Vaccaro previously worked at newspapers in Newark, Kansas City, Middletown, N.Y., Fayetteville, Ark., and Olean, N.Y. He is the author of three books: “Emperors and Idiots,” about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry; “1941: the Greatest Year in Sports;” and “The First Fall Classic,” about the 1912 World Series. He also makes frequent television and radio appearances. A native of West Hempstead, N.Y., Vaccaro now makes his home in Hillsdale, N.J. with his wife, Leigh, and two rambunctious terriers: a 12-pound Westy named Fiona and Desmond, a 12,000-pound (or so it seems) Airedale. He is a terrible golfer and undefeated in all games involving “Godfather” trivia.
Latest Articles
This has to become the new staඣndard for Mets
The Dodgers have made 🔜the playoffs every year since 2013. That is the model. That is the blueprin🌄t.
Aaron Boone's unshakable Yankees trait is finally being rewarded
Perhaps you wonder how it can be, ꦕall these years later, that Aaron Boone, now the manager✃ of the Yankees, can be so relentlessly positive even during stretches of seasons...
Yankees deserve to revel in long-awaited💛 pennant before turning attention to real busineꩲss in World Series
By the time Juan Soto's long homer landed, so did the Yankees — right🌱 into the World Series for the first time in 15 years.
Mets must get eternal payback for Los Angeles' greatest larceny
Forget the fact that the Mets’ loss in the 1988 NLCS has already been av🤡enged, twice, by both the 2006 Mets and the 2015 Mets.
🌱 The Mets playoff challange still facing Steve Cohen and David Stearns 🦩
And that’s the trick for Steve Cohen and David Stearns now. One of the things about the best teams of recent vintage — the Dodgers, Braves, A💙stros, even Brewers —...
These Yankees ๊stress tes🐠ts are the ones champions must survive
In a couple of weeks, if you’re lining the streets of low🔴er Manhattan and Mark Leiter Jr. passes by on a float, you’ll be able to shout your thanks for...
Mets have given fans reason to drea𝕴m one more time after staving off elimination
I𝐆t๊’s OK to dream now, Mets fans. It is. It’s OK to start playing little games in your head, connecting dots, conjuring best-case scenarios.
How Carlos Mendoza's magical rookie season stacks up with other Mets managerial debuts
ꦐ When you consider where they were when they were 11 games under .500, and where they were Frida﷽y afternoon, it's not a hard question.
𓆏 Forty🍬 minutes stand between Liberty and NYC basketball finally returning to glory
The Liberty can bring basketball brillianceꦰ back to the city, back to The City Game, b🔯ack to a place that takes basketball every bit as seriously as any other hoops...
🃏 This fairytale sea♋son was never supposed to end like this
What Bill ✨Parcells said 35 years ago still applies: There’s no medals for trying in professional sports. There are no consolation prizes. ♓
🍌 Guardians have a new energy after all-time thriller
It seemed 💫impossible. It felt unreal.
Mets manager's misplaced loyalty could be fatal mistake
Fun is a big part of b🔯aseball. Fu🔯n has its place. But this is no longer about positive vibes and cheerful mojo.
The Yankees a💮re in con🅘trol -- but not in the clear
In the long history of best-of-seven series in MLB’s postseason team✃s that have fallen into a 2-0 hole have gone on to win 16 percent of the time.
ꦡ Anthony Rizzo bailed out Yankees in bleakest of moments
With tension in the air at Yankee Stadium, Anthony Rizz൩o restored a sense of order for the Yankees. ♎
T🎉hi𝔍s version of Luis Severino is just what Mets need after years of Yankees hype
Luis Severino was once a Yankees wunderkid, then a castoff and now a rock for the Mets rotatio🎉n.
Juan Soto has yet to meet his match 🦂
This is what Juan Soto does🅘: he hammers baseballs. It’s his job. It’s hꦍow he makes his living.
Mets had a perfect response after getting bullied in NLCS ope🌄ner
They were flattened by a haymaker. 🎃
Seven years later, Yanke🌊es can use Guardians as steppingstone all over again
Seven years after that hopeful preface, the Yankees can finally write the final chapter they’veཧ searched soᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ long to write.
Francisco Lindor has chanc🎶e to quickly change everything for Mets
Fran꧅cisco Lindor will not only be the likeliest candidate to make that happen, he’ll also be the Mets’ first option when he leads the game off against whichever reliever of...
Mets vs. Dodgers has already created lasting hi🐷story — expect more of that in the NLCS
There will be💦 an omnipresent chant. It was heard in these parts for the first time on May 30, 1962, Mets vs. Dodgers, and it’s been with us ever since.