The Yankee Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Gallagher, Mark; LeConte, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582616833 ISBN 13: 9781582616834

Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC, 2003

Synopsis

Completely revised and updated, The Yankee Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition is the definitive book on New York Yankees baseball. It traces the history of one of Major League Baseball's most successful organizations. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Yankees and more. Who was the first manager of the Yankees? How many perfect games have Yankee pitchers thrown? These questions, along with thousands more, are answered in this new encyclopedia. All of the all-time great Yankee legends-Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, and Don Mattingly, along with today's heroes like Derek Jeter and David Cone-are profiled in this book.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Gallagher is Lecturer in the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University at Nottingham. His articles on film and television have appeared in Jump Cut, Velvet Light Trap, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, the Journal of Film and Video, and in other journals and anthologies.

Review:

What this country has long needed is a good Yankees encyclopedia. Mark Gallagher has done a beautiful job. he begins with a spirited history of the Yankees, a team that (despite a few insignificant recent blips) stands as a peerless standard of excellence. Biographies of the 180 most notable Yankees extract their statistics with the team from those of the rest of their careers, and there is a listing for everyone who ever played for the team along with a chronological section on managers, which unaccountably fails to explain why kid Eberfield (1908) was called "the Tabasco Kid." There are terrific season-by-season summaries, a long section on the World Series and Yankee statistics in every conceivable category. --The New York Times Book Review April 7, 1996 Richard Gid Powers

About this edition

• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1582616833
• ISBN 13: 9781582616834
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 500