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The Yankee Years (Audio)

By: Joe Torre (Author), Tom Verducci (Author) and Tom Verducci (Narrator)

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

Publisher's note

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 tochallenge 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.

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. Simultaneous.

Annotation

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 teams together amidst the unbelievable 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 tireless 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.

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