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Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
Ecco
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0062059629
EAN: 9780062059628
Kindle: B005O0AUGU
Hardcover / e-Book
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Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. More than an
opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.
—From the Introduction Love them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an
American institution for nearly a century. With their rich
history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never
fail to inspire or provoke. In this exciting compendium,
some of today's most acclaimed writers—including Pete
Dexter, Colum McCann, Roy Blount Jr., Dan Barry, Jane Leavy,
Charles P. Pierce, J. R. Moehringer, Daniel Okrent, Frank
DeFord, Bill James, and many more—step up to the plate to
take their cuts. The result is a collection of original
essays as idiosyncratic and expansive as the team that has
inspired them: ruminations on Babe Ruth's gravestone, Derek
Jeter's swing, and the upper-deck vantage of the Oldest
Living Yankee; dual allegiances; mortal rivalries; and every
other subject that spans from the hilarious (the Yankee
wife-swap of the '70s) to the sublime (the grace of Catfish
Hunter). Superbly written, deeply insightful, and full of both
passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a completely fresh look
at baseball's most enduring franchise by a Murderers' Row of
writers as stacked as that of the 1927 Yanks.
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