I grew up a Yankee fan during the Mickey Mantle era, traveling to the Bronx in my uncleâs canary-yellow Chrysler Imperial. Those early experiences set me on a trajectory to want to play baseball every chance I got, starting with Little League and ending up on my high schoolâs varsity squad. Fortunately, my high school was in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where my family had moved in 1962, the same year that the Yankees began playing their pre-season games in the city, which meant when I wasnât playing baseball at school, I was hanging around Ft. Lauderdale Stadium watching the Yankees. Yes, the Pinstripe Nation was in my blood.
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The Men Who Made the Yankees: The Odyssey of the World's Greatest Baseball Team from Baltimore to the Bronx
If you want a close-up look at the players who made up the early Yankee teams, this is the book for you. In Amoreâs book youâll learn about some key Yankeesâ players: Wee Willie Keeler, Frank Chance (of Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance fame), Hal Chase, Roger Peckinpaugh, Frank âHome Runâ Baker, and, of course, George Herman âBabeâ Ruth, among many others who populated the early New York Yankee teams.
2018 marks 115 years since the inception of the New York Yankees--and what a 115-year period it's been! But how did the team that has since won a league-leading 27 world championships get started? In A Franchise on the Rise, veteran sportswriter Dom Amore takes readers back in time to the first twenty years of the team's existence, from 1903 to 1923, focusing on all the major players and events, including their first ten years as the Highlanders, their move to Yankee Stadium, and their subsequent first World Series in 1923. In doing so, Amore successfully finds the characters' ownâŚ
Although Luisiâs history of the New York Yankees' first 25 years retraces some of the ground that I do in my book, Luisiâs pictorial history is a must-read for those interested in the Yankees early days. What distinguishes Luisiâs book from mine is that where Luisi begins the Yankee journey upon their arrival in upper Manhattan in 1903, two years after the founding of the American League, I go further back in time, connecting the origin of the Yankees with the formation of Ban Johnsonâs upstart American League, which announced itself a major league contender in time for the 1901 season.
Contrary to popular belief, the Atrahasis Epic is not merely a flood myth. In some ways it can be called a creation myth. However, it does not concern itself with the creation of the universe or even of the earth. Rather, the created work in question is one of cultureâŚ
After the Yankees emerged from their dismal days as the Hilltop Highlanders, officially becoming the New York Yankees in 1913, ten years after coming to the Washington Heights area in upper Manhattan, they made a run for the American League pennant, and, as such, for major league baseballâs largest prizeâWorld Series Champs. But they had a very steep hill to climb: they had to claw their way over their arch-rival, the National Leagueâs New York Giants, who defeated the Yankees in post-season play in 1921 and 1922 to claim major league baseballâs ultimate prize. Mayer tells the story of the Yankeesâ third try in 1923 when they finally overcame their nemesis to stand atop the baseball world.
The 1923 Yankees started the dynasty - with stars like Babe Ruth, Wally Pipp, Joe Dugan and Bob Meusel, they won the pennant by 16 games before claiming the franchise's first World Series title. Five Yankees pitchers won 16 games that year, led by Sam Jones (21-8), and the team finally defeated McGraw's Giants after losing to them in the Series two years in a row. This book covers that first Yankees championship team in great detail, taking the reader through the entire season, game-by-game.
Bancroft âBanâ Johnson, the founder and first president of the American League, set his sights early on challenging the domination of the National Leauge, which came to power in the 1870s. Wilbertâs book adequately depicts Johnsonâs rise to power and his subsequent challenge to National League teams, culminating in the ALâs first official season as a major league in 1901, two years before the strong-willed Johnson was able to muscle a team into Manhattan to challenge the NLâs dominant franchise, the New York Giants.
In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League (AL), and the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.
With Franklin Rooseveltâs death in April 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as Americaâs new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight, bipartisan partnership at a bitterly partisan timeâŚ
Fischerâs Miracle Moments in New York Yankees History is aptly divided into five parts, the first of whichââBirth of a Dynastyââis the most relevant for the current topic. It covers the âHilltop Highlanderâ years (1903-1913), the Yankeesâ decade at the Polo Grounds as tenants of their arch-rival, the National Leagueâs New York Giants (1913-1922), the sale of the Yankees to Ruppert and Huston (1914-1915), the acquisition of Babe Ruth (1919-1920), and their move to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and their first World Series title (1923). But FischerâsMiracle Moments has much more to offer than these early days as it provides a panoramic view of the entire Yankeesâ franchise from 1903 to the present.
Throughout its illustrious history, the New York Yankees have produced some of the most memorable highlights in baseball annals. Babe Ruth's "called shot" home run, Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Derek Jeter's amazing "Flip Play." Most Yankees fans have seen newsreel footage of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, watched highlights of a young Mickey Mantle, and have heard the story of Billy Martin's five managerial hirings and firings. But what makes the Yankees the world's most celebrated sports franchise goes beyond sheer headlines? it is the stories of the men behind the headlines who have thrilled and enchanted New York fansâŚ
The Men Who Made the Yankeestraces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankeesâ first world championship title in 1923.The Men Who Made the Yankees focuses on a handful of club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League franchise in New York City.
A baseball enthusiast from a young age, Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War, a work of historical fiction set in Boston during the waning days of the first world war, and the forthcoming The Things He Could Have Been, or The Almost True Story of Babe Ruth.
This irreverent biography provides a rare window into the music industry from a promoterâs perspective. From a young age, Peter Jest was determined to make a career in live music, and despite naysayers and obstacles, he did just that, bringing national acts to his college campus atUW-Milwaukee, booking thousands ofâŚ
I grew up thinking that being adopted didnât matter. I was wrong. This book is my journey uncovering the significance and true history of adoption practices in America. Now, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courtâs overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over womenâs reproductive rights placesâŚ