Pinstripe Empire

Pinstripe Empire
Title Pinstripe Empire PDF eBook
Author Marty Appel
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 705
Release 2014-05-06
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1620406810

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The definitive history of the world's greatest baseball team—with an all new afterword by the author.

Pinstripe Pride

Pinstripe Pride
Title Pinstripe Pride PDF eBook
Author Marty Appel
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 288
Release 2015-02-17
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1481416022

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"Get the complete story of the Yankees, from Babe Ruth to Derek Jeter--with twenty-seven World Championships in between--in this middle grade adaptation of "Pinstripe Empire," a celebrated adult nonfiction tome from author and former Yankees PR director ..."--

Inside the Empire

Inside the Empire
Title Inside the Empire PDF eBook
Author Bob Klapisch
Publisher Mariner Books
Pages 259
Release 2019
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1328589358

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Forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Casey Stengel

Casey Stengel
Title Casey Stengel PDF eBook
Author Marty Appel
Publisher Anchor
Pages 490
Release 2017-03-28
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0385540485

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The definitive biography of one of baseball's most enduring and influential characters, from New York Times bestselling author and baseball writer Marty Appel. As a player, Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel's contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson . . . and he was the only person in history to wear the uniforms of all four New York teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. As a legendary manager, he formed indelible, complicated relationships with Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin. For more than five glorious decades, Stengel was the undisputed, quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball--and along the way he revolutionized the role of manager while winning a spectactular ten pennants and seven World Series Championships. But for a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight--an astounding fifty-five years in professional baseball--Stengel remains an enigma. Acclaimed New York Yankees' historian and bestselling author Marty Appel digs into Casey Stengel's quirks and foibles, unearthing a tremendous trove of baseball stories, perspective, and history. Weaving in never-before-published family documents, Appel creates an intimate portrait of a private man who was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 and named "Baseball's Greatest Character" by MLB Network's Prime 9. Casey Stengel is a biography that will be treasured by fans of our national pastime.

Baseball in the Garden of Eden

Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Title Baseball in the Garden of Eden PDF eBook
Author John Thorn
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 386
Release 2012-03-20
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0743294041

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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.

Power on the Precipice

Power on the Precipice
Title Power on the Precipice PDF eBook
Author Andrew Imbrie
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 271
Release 2020-09-08
Genre History
ISBN 0300256108

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An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline. Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing global dynamics and compete more wisely. Drawing on the author’s own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the United States’ place in the world today.

Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees
Title Damn Yankees PDF eBook
Author Rob Fleder
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 179
Release 2012-04-03
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0062059645

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Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball. With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated magazine, offers a timeless collection of original essays by some of the most prominent contemporary writers in America—from Pete Dexter to Jane Leavy, from Roy Blount Jr. to Colum McCann—each piece focusing on one uniquely colorful subject: the fanatically adored/resoundingly despised “Bronx Bombers.” Funny, moving, provocative, insightful appreciations and detractions—from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Derek Jeter—Damn Yankees offers twenty-four fascinating takes on the most storied franchise of baseball’s Major Leagues.