Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League
pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive
story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre
took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the
most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series
title in eighteen years. The famously tough and mercurial
owner, George Steinbrenner, had fired seventeen managers
during that span. Torre’s appointment was greeted with Bronx
cheers from the notoriously brutal New York media, who cited
his record as the player and manager who had been in the
most Major League games without appearing in a World
Series
Twelve tumultuous and triumphant years later,
Torre left the team as the most beloved and successful
manager in the game. In an era of multimillionaire free
agents, fractured clubhouses, revenue-sharing, and
off-the-field scandals, Torre forged a team ethos that
united his players and made the Yankees, once again, the
greatest team in sports. He won over the media with his
honesty and class, and was beloved by the fans.
But
it wasn’t easy.
Here, for the first time, Joe Torre
and Tom Verducci take us inside the dugout, the
clubhouse, and the front office in a revelatory
narrative that shows what it really took to keep the Yankees
on top of the baseball world. The high-priced ace who broke
down in tears and refused to go back to the mound in the
middle of a game. Constant meddling from Yankee executives,
many of whom were jealous of Torre’s popularity. The tension
that developed between the old guard and the free agents
brought in by management. The impact of revenue-sharing and
new scouting techniques, which allowed other teams to
challenge the Yankees’ dominance. The players who couldn’t
resist the after-hours temptations of the Big Apple. The
joys of managing Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, and the
challenges of managing Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi.
Torre’s last year, when constant ultimatums from the front
office, devastating injuries, and a freak cloud of bugs on a
warm September night in Cleveland forced him from a job he
loved.
Through it all, Torre kept his calm, kept his
players’ respect, and kept winning.
And, of course,
The Yankee Years chronicles the amazing stories on
the diamond. The stirring comeback in the 1996 World Series
against the heavily favored Braves. The wonder of 1998, when
Torre led the Yanks to the most wins in Major League
history. The draining and emotional drama of the 2001 World
Series. The incredible twists and turns of the epic Game 7
of the 2003 American League Championship Series against the
Red Sox, in which two teams who truly despised each other
battled pitch by pitch until the stunning extra-inning home
run.
Here is a sweeping narrative of Major League
Baseball in the Yankee era, a book both grand in its scope
and fascinating in its details.
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