Written as a third-person narrative with "Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Verducci, "The Yankee Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from the most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of t…
One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle i…
"One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle …
One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle i…
While the Kansas City Royals may have come out of the blue with their success in 2014, the 2015 edition of the team had high expectations and they met them to the fullest degree in winning the 2015 World Series -- the organization's first in three decades. Buoyed by a dominant r…
A SEASON OF BRAWLING, BOOZING, BINBO-CHASING, AND CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL WITH STRAW, DOC, MOOKIE, NAILS, THE KID, AND THE REST OF THE 1986 METS, THE ROWDIEST TEAM TO PUT ON A NEW YORK UNIFORM, AND MAYBE THE BEST.
A SEASON OF BRAWLING, BOOZING, BINBO-CHASING, AND CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL WITH STRAW, DOC, MOOKIE, NAILS, THE KID, AND THE REST OF THE 1986 METS, THE ROWDIEST TEAM TO PUT ON A NEW YORK UNIFORM, AND MAYBE THE BEST.
This book is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, on the short list of great moments in baseball history. One October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn…
