Damn Yankees
Subtitle: twenty-four major league writers on the world's most loved (and hated) team
By: edited by Rob Fleder
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780062059628
Subjects: New York Yankees (Baseball team); Baseball; History
Description: 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).