• Home >
  • Buy >
  • Books >

  • The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (2009, Hardcover)

2DayShip The Yankee Years by Joe T...
dvdforfast(23,733)99.8%
Brand New
$17.99
+$4.00
Save 33%*
The Yankee Years BRAND NEW Joe Tor...
dmabe2007(10,864)99.6%
Brand New
$19.99
+$3.99
Save 25%*
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom...
powells_bookstore(39,481)99.4%
Good
$18.50
+$3.98
Save 31%*
*Learn more
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (2009, Hardcover) 
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (2009, Hardcover)

 
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (2009, Hardcover)

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2009-02-03
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385527403
ISBN-13: 9780385527408
Product ID: EPID66796514
Description: In 1996, when the New York Yankees named Joe Torre as their new manager, the most storied franchise in baseball history had gone almost 20 years without a championship. In his 12 years with the club, Torre and the Yankees made the play-o...
Save this productSell oneWrite a review
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2009 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
Refine search
Preferences
Distance
Please enter valid zipcode.
Please select a valid popular city.
Please enter valid zipcode or select a valid popular city.
Within miles of ZIP
20 results|Group by condition
Page 1 of 1
Synopsis
In 1996, when the New York Yankees named Joe Torre as their new manager, the most storied franchise in baseball history had gone almost 20 years without a championship. In his 12 years with the club, Torre and the Yankees made the play-offs every season, and won the World Series four times. That was the easy part. The true challenge of Torre's job was simply holding his team together amidst the pressure and turmoil attached to professional sports in New York City. With the most notorious owner in sports breathing down his neck, Torre somehow negotiated the team through freak injuries, a parade of overpaid free agents, sensational extracurricular scandals, steroids violations, and the frenzy of the New York media. His version of the story is insightful and compelling, mixing advice on leadership and management with tell-all, behind-the-scenes details that will shock and delight Yankee fans and foes alike.

Details
Publication Date:2009-02-03

Size
Length:368 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:30.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The former Yankees manager provides a thought-provoking and candid behind-the-scenes study of the Yankees organization, from top to bottom, detailing the challenges of working for a team in which executives and the media question every decision, managing a clubhouse of superstars, and the issues confronting modern baseball. 250,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"What this book does...very persuasively is chart the rise and fall of one of baseball's great dynasties, while showing the care and feeding it took to bring the city of New York four championships in five years."
(01/26/2009)

"THE YANKEE YEARS is a richly detailed account of the most successful managerial tenure in recent baseball history. It is also rich with predictable sentiments, vivid but familiar replays of crucial games, and unsurprising portraits of already well-known Yankee figures -- except for a blunt and unflattering depiction of superstar Alex Rodriguez."
(01/27/2009)

"THE YANKEE YEARS can be read as urban opera,...[but] it's also a case history of the sad physical and mental decline of Emperor George, or an M.B.A. class in radical corporate thinking and its absence in a baseball time of unimaginable financial expansion, or a further take on high-salaried egos and frail character in the steroid era of sports."
(03/09/2009)

"Torre says he watched the Yankees move from the egoless, workmanlike makeup of the late-90s dynasty into a mismatched collection of self-absorbed, stats-obsessed stars."
(07/26/2009)

See an error? Submit a change request

    About eBay | Announcements | Security Center | Resolution Center | eBay Toolbar | Policies | Government Relations | Site Map | Help
    Copyright © 1995-2009 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
    eBay official time

    Error
    We're sorry, but there's been an error.
    Please try again.