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The Yankee Years

By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
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By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
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By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
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By Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
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    About The Yankee Years

    The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre’s New York Yankees.
     
    When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasons—with twelve straight playoff appearances, six pennants, and four World Series titles—Torre left the Yankees as the most beloved manager in baseball. But dealing with players like Jason Giambi, A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson is what managing is all about. Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office, showing what it took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.

    About The Yankee Years

    The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre’s New York Yankees.
     
    When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasons—with twelve straight playoff appearances, six pennants, and four World Series titles—Torre left the Yankees as the most beloved manager in baseball. But dealing with players like Jason Giambi, A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson is what managing is all about. Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office, showing what it took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.

    About The Yankee Years

    A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.

    Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the country. Famously diplomatic during his tenure with the Yankees, Torre finally speaks out about what it was like building and managing the dynasty during those twelve glorious and tumultuous years. Written as a third-person narrative with Sports Illustrated Senior Baseball Writer Tom Verducci, THE YANKEE YEARS is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees organization from top to bottom.

    About The Yankee Years

    Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years

    When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. The famously tough and mercurial owner, George Steinbrenner, had fired seventeen managers during that span. Torre’s appointment was greeted with Bronx cheers from the notoriously brutal New York media, who cited his record as the player and manager who had been in the most Major League games without appearing in a World Series

    Twelve tumultuous and triumphant years later, Torre left the team as the most beloved and successful manager in the game. In an era of multimillionaire free agents, fractured clubhouses, revenue-sharing, and off-the-field scandals, Torre forged a team ethos that united his players and made the Yankees, once again, the greatest team in sports. He won over the media with his honesty and class, and was beloved by the fans.

    But it wasn’t easy.

    Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take us inside the dugout, the
    clubhouse, and the front office in a revelatory narrative that shows what it really took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world. The high-priced ace who broke down in tears and refused to go back to the mound in the middle of a game. Constant meddling from Yankee executives, many of whom were jealous of Torre’s popularity. The tension that developed between the old guard and the free agents brought in by management. The impact of revenue-sharing and new scouting techniques, which allowed other teams to challenge the Yankees’ dominance. The players who couldn’t resist the after-hours temptations of the Big Apple. The joys of managing Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, and the challenges of managing Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi. Torre’s last year, when constant ultimatums from the front office, devastating injuries, and a freak cloud of bugs on a warm September night in Cleveland forced him from a job he loved.

    Through it all, Torre kept his calm, kept his players’ respect, and kept winning.

    And, of course, The Yankee Years chronicles the amazing stories on the diamond. The stirring comeback in the 1996 World Series against the heavily favored Braves. The wonder of 1998, when Torre led the Yanks to the most wins in Major League history. The draining and emotional drama of the 2001 World Series. The incredible twists and turns of the epic Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series against the Red Sox, in which two teams who truly despised each other battled pitch by pitch until the stunning extra-inning home run.

    Here is a sweeping narrative of Major League Baseball in the Yankee era, a book both grand in its scope and fascinating in its details.

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    About Joe Torre

    Joe Torre played for the Braves, the Cardinals, and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007, Torre… More about Joe Torre

    About Tom Verducci

    Tom Verducci is the senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and SportsIllustrated.com, and a baseball analyst for the MLB Network…. More about Tom Verducci

    About Joe Torre

    Joe Torre played for the Braves, the Cardinals, and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007, Torre… More about Joe Torre

    About Tom Verducci

    Tom Verducci is the senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and SportsIllustrated.com, and a baseball analyst for the MLB Network…. More about Tom Verducci

    About Joe Torre

    Joe Torre played for the Braves, the Cardinals, and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007, Torre… More about Joe Torre

    About Tom Verducci

    Tom Verducci is the senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and SportsIllustrated.com, and a baseball analyst for the MLB Network…. More about Tom Verducci

    About Joe Torre

    Joe Torre played for the Braves, the Cardinals, and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007, Torre… More about Joe Torre

    About Tom Verducci

    Tom Verducci is the senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and SportsIllustrated.com, and a baseball analyst for the MLB Network…. More about Tom Verducci

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Sports | 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 09, 2010 | 528 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780767930420

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Sports | 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Feb 03, 2009 | 368 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385529389

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Sports | 20th Century U.S. History | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 03, 2009 | 1005 Minutes | ISBN 9781415958957

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Sports | 20th Century U.S. History | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 03, 2009 | 526 Minutes | ISBN 9780739370780

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    Praise

    “One of the best books about baseball ever written.”—New York Daily News 

    “An insightful and non-hagiographic look at a legendary manager and team during one of baseball’s most transformational eras.”–Boston Globe
      
    “The consummate insider’s view of what may be the last great dynasty in baseball history.”–Los Angeles Times
     
    “An appealing portrait of a likable, hard-working man. One closes the book with a high regard for Mr. Torre, not least as a manager.”–Wall Street Journal
     
    “A lively chronicle. . . . 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.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
     
    “A capacious fresh account of [Torre’s] great run in the Bronx…. Verducci has range and ease; he’s a shortstop on the page.” —The New Yorker
     
    “Compelling. . . . A hybrid of insider reporting [and] autobiography.” —The Christian Science Monitor
     
    “Fascinating reading.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “[Filled with] many insights, some about human nature, many about the great American game.” —Bloomberg News

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