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"The 1927 Yankees may or may not have been
the best team ever, but surely this is the best book about that concentration
of
talent."–George
Will
"An
engrossing and entertaining look at a mythical baseball team. Ride the trains
and chew the tobacco and have
fun."—
Leigh
Montville, author of “The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe
Ruth”
Five
O’clock Lightning:
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest
Baseball Team in History,
The 1927 New York
Yankees
By Harvey
Frommer
The 1927 New York Yankees are widely regarded
as one of the greatest baseball teams of
all-time. From the
“Murderer’s Row” lineup to the near mythic status that surrounded
them in Prohibition-era New York City and elsewhere, celebrated author Harvey
Frommer tells the fascinating story of the greatest season of baseball’s
greatest team in FIVE O’CLOCK
LIGHTNING.
Based on an oral history, long-buried
letters, and diary notations, FIVE
O’CLOCK LIGHTNING: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team
in History, The 1927 New York Yankees (Wiley; November 2007; $24.95; Cloth;
ISBN: 9780471778127) paints a vivid portrait of the best team in baseball
chasing greatness in Jazz Age New York City just before the Depression changed
everything. Told in chronological order and through colorful details from
the 1927 Yankees’ private and public lives, as well as the kinds of
minutiae baseball fans love (salaries, batting orders, standings, stats)
and stories about the complicated task of building a cohesive team from a
collection of superstars, FIVE
O’CLOCK LIGHTNING reveals the hidden history of America’s greatest
ball club, from the team’s compilation in the 1926 off-season (only
one year after the Yanks’ disastrous ’25 season) to the World
Series’ final pitch.
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About the
Author:
Harvey Frommer (New York, NY, and Lyme,
NH) is a well-known oral historian and sports author who has written 39 sports
books and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. Cited in
the Congressional Record and the New York State Legislature as a sports
historian, he is Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, and a professor
at Dartmouth College in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
program.
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Five O’clock Lightning:
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History,
The 1927 New York Yankees
By Harvey Fommer
Wiley
Publication
Date:
November 2007
$24.95, Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-471-77812-7
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