| Descript |
290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
"I have feelings for the Yankees" / Roy Blount Jr. -- Street heart / Sally Jenkins -- Take me out to the Oedipal complex / Bruce McCall -- The errors of our ways / Pete Dexter -- True north / Charles P. Pierce -- Gone fishin' / Michael Paterniti -- The Queens speech / Nathaniel Rich -- The Latin king / Steve Wulf -- The oldest living Yankee / J. R. Moehringer -- Billion-dollar baby / James Surowiecki -- Media Babe / Leigh Montville -- A Baltimore chop / Frank DeFord -- An innocent abroad / Will Leitch -- Sully and the Mick / Jane Leavy -- The deal of the century / Daniel Okrent -- Death by baseball / Richard Hoffer -- One true pitch / Rick Telander -- The long way home / Colum McCann -- Day of the locust / William Nack -- My season's better than your season / Bill James -- The dog days / Dan Barry -- A bad case of the Yankees / Roger Director -- Captain America / Tom Verducci -- Yankee mortals / Steve Rushin -- Yankees by the numbers. |
| Summary |
Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball. With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated magazine, offers a timeless collection of original essays by some of the most prominent contemporary writers in America--from Pete Dexter to Jane Leavy, from Roy Blount Jr. to Colum McCann--each piece focusing on one uniquely colorful subject: the fanatically adored/resoundingly despised "Bronx Bombers." Funny, moving, provocative, insightful appreciations and detractions--from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Derek Jeter--Damn Yankees offers twenty-four fascinating takes on the most storied franchise of baseball's Major Leagues. |
| Subject |
New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- History -- 20th century.
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Baseball -- History.
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| Alt Author |
Fleder, Rob.
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| ISBN |
9780062059628 (hc.) |
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0062059629 (hc.) |
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