Damn Yankees

Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team

De: Rob Fleder

Narrado por: George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Babara Caruso

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).

Superbly written, deeply insightful, and full of both passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a completely fresh look at baseball's most enduring franchise by a Murderers' Row of writers as stacked as that of the 1927 Yanks.

©2012 Rob Fleder (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers

*LOVE* This Book

Some of these essays will have you laughing so hard! Some will have you reminiscing for good times and bad times. The male narrators were fantastic! Chapter 6 especially. I didn't mind the female narrator but her voice didn't fit this book for me. DEFINITELY RECOMMEND!!!

Excellent read about the love and hate

of Major League Baseball jewel franchise. A compilation of stories from baseball writers who covered the team. From Babe Ruth to Derek Jeter stories by baseball writers of the most popular team in all of American sports. Regardless if you love or hate the Yankees. You will love this book.