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Eternal Yankee
W.W. Norton
April 2010
On Sale: March 29, 2010
Featuring: Yogi Berra
450 pages
ISBN: 0393337146
EAN: 9780393337143
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
The gripping biography of the legendary
Hall-of-Famer and one of the most quotable figures in
American culture. Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in
American history, and the most quoted American since Abraham
Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is
also the winningest player (fourteen pennants, ten World
Series, three MVPs) in baseball history. In this revelatory
biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's remarkable life as
never seen before, from his childhood in "Dago Hill," the
Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis, to his leading
role on the 1949-53 Yankees, the only team to win five
consecutive World Series, to the travails of the '64 pennant
race, through his epic battles and final peace with George
Steinbrenner. This biography, replete with nearly one hundred photos and
countless "Yogi-isms," offers hilarious insights into many
of baseball's greatest moments. From calling Don Larsen's
perfect game to managing the 1973 "You Gotta Believe" New
York Mets, Yogi's life and career are a virtual cutaway view
of our national pastime in the twentieth century. 98 photographs
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