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Tommy Lasorda is perhaps baseball's most famous and popular figure. At 79, after 20 years of managing and 57 years with one franchise, this Hall of Famer still suits up in Dodger Blue every day. He also keeps a travel schedule that would dizzy the most frequent fliers. Lasorda went from a scrawny, overlooked Italian kid of average ability to become one of the world's most recognizable baseball faces--and he fought for it every step of the way. Plaschke...
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"The untold story of the time when the New York Yankees were a laughingstock--and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports. The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records. They have 26 members in the Hall of Fame.Their pinstripe swag is a symbol of "making it" worn across the globe. Yet some 25 years ago, from 1989 to 1992, the Yankees were...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
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x, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"A biography of the only baseball player in history to play for all the New York Teams describes how he went on to revolutionize the role of manager and won 10 pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees,"--NoveList.
Stengel was the only person in baseball to wear the uniforms of all four New York teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. He started as a player in 1912, and became a manager in 1934. Appel describes how Stengel revolutionized...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
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xii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it through his trademark glasses and irrepressible wit. Raised in the "shot-and-beer" town of Hazleton, PA, and forged by 15 years in the minors, Maddon over 19 seasons in Tampa Bay, Chicago and Anaheim has become one of the most successful, most colorful, and most quoted managers in Major League Baseball. He is a workplace culture expert, having engineered two of the most stunning turnarounds in the...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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xix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"From zany mascots to the most beautiful ballparks ever, and from great traditions to humorous anecdotes from the game, this book explores the many reasons we love baseball. Based on assiduous research and features the author's exclusive interviews with baseball legends past and present"--
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Looks at the life and career of Casey Stengel, from his days as a player on the Brooklyn Dodgers to his string of pennants and World Series wins as manager of the New York Yankees.
11) The Yankee years
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
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viii, 502 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Written as a third-person narrative with "Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Verducci, "The Yankee Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from the most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of the modern era.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
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xii, 420 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
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The legendary baseball manager takes readers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Cardinals' 2011 season, detailing a journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time.
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