Taking on the Yankees
Subtitle: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903 to 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780393057195
First sentence: SHORTLY after four o'clock on the afternoon of October 10, 1923, New York Giants outfielder Casey Stengel smashed a long drive to the deep left center of the New York Yankees' massive new stadium, lost a shoe as he rounded second, and slid in to home just ahead of the throw.