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In 1996, when the New York Yankees named Joe Torre as their new manager, the most storied franchise in baseball history had gone almost 20 years without a championship. In his 12 years with the club, Torre and the Yankees made the play-offs every season, and won the World Series four times. That was the easy part. The true challenge of Torre's job was simply holding his team together amidst the pressure and turmoil attached to professional sports in New York City. With the most notorious owner in sports breathing down his neck, Torre somehow negotiated the team through freak injuries, a parade of overpaid free agents, sensational extracurricular scandals, steroids violations, and the frenzy of the New York media. His version of the story is insightful and compelling, mixing advice on leadership and management with tell-all, behind-the-scenes details that will shock and delight Yankee fans and foes alike.
| Size | | Length: | 368 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 30.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"What this book does...very persuasively is chart the rise and fall of one of baseball's great dynasties, while showing the care and feeding it took to bring the city of New York four championships in five years."
(01/26/2009)
"THE YANKEE YEARS is a richly detailed account of the most successful managerial tenure in recent baseball history. It is also rich with predictable sentiments, vivid but familiar replays of crucial games, and unsurprising portraits of already well-known Yankee figures -- except for a blunt and unflattering depiction of superstar Alex Rodriguez."
(01/27/2009)
"THE YANKEE YEARS can be read as urban opera,...[but] it's also a case history of the sad physical and mental decline of Emperor George, or an M.B.A. class in radical corporate thinking and its absence in a baseball time of unimaginable financial expansion, or a further take on high-salaried egos and frail character in the steroid era of sports."
(03/09/2009)
"Torre says he watched the Yankees move from the egoless, workmanlike makeup of the late-90s dynasty into a mismatched collection of self-absorbed, stats-obsessed stars."
(07/26/2009)
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