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Has It Really Been a Yankee
Century?
New Book Chronicles One of Sport’s Most Storied
Teams
"Yankee fans who
can't learn enough about their favorite team will think they died and went
to heaven with all that Frommer offers on each
page."
—Publishers Weekly
In the world of politics,
the term is
“polarizing.” It’s
used for people and organizations that evoke
strong feelings, both
positive and
negative. If you looked
up that word in a sports dictionary,
however, you’d find a picture of
The New York
Yankees. No other team
in Sport is more simultaneously loved and hated than the embattled
Yanks. But by the same token,
no other team is more storied, more celebrated, or more woven into the fabric
of American culture than the
Bronx
Bombers.
As far as baseball is concerned,
the last hundred years have truly been a Yankee
Century. So claims Harvey Frommer, author of
Yankee
Century and Beyond: A Celebration
of the First Hundred Plus Years of Baseball’s Greatest
Team
(ISBN:
978-1-4022-1002-0; November, 2007; $17.00 US / $22.00 CAN).
Yankee
Century captures
106 years of Yankee life in reflections, stats, facts, and historic images.
From their beginning as the
New
York Highlanders, playing in Manhattan's Hilltop Park in 1903, to
reigning over Major League Baseball as it entered a new millennium—with
World Series Championships in '96, '98, '99 and 2000—the Yankees represent
a century-long legacy of triumphs and defeats, legends and lore, as an enduring
symbol of America's favorite pastime.
More than just an atlas of
statistics,
Yankee
Century contains reflections, quotes and profiles from individuals
who are at the heart of the Yankee
Mystique. Personalities
include: Mel Allen, Yogi Berra, Chris Chambliss, Don Larsen, and Bob
Sheppard. It also includes tributes to the
greats: From Mickey Mantle to
Don Mattingly, Vic Raschi to Allie Reynolds and Joltin' Joe DiMaggio to Derek
Jeter.
Destined to become the defining
chronicle of the Yankees’ first hundred years,
Yankee Century and
Beyond is a must-have collector’s volume not only for Yankee
fans, but for anyone who appreciates the history and relevance of American
Sport.
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Harvey
Frommer is a noted sports journalist and historian, the author of
thirty-eight books on sports, including
Shoeless
Joe and Ragtime Baseball and
The
New York Yankee Encyclopedia, as well as autobiographies of legends
Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett and Red
Holzman. He has also written,
along with his wife, hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines and on
the internet.
Frommer is a sought after
public speaker, and a regular on radio and television sports
shows. He is a professor at
Dartmouth college and a long time Yankee fan who wrote for
Yankees
Magazine for sixteen years.
