The Yankee Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Gallagher, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571670114 ISBN 13: 9781571670113

Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC, 1996

Synopsis

For almost a century, the New York Yankees have dominated the game of baseball. With 33 American League pennants and 22 world championships, the Yankees have built a dynasty that is unrivaled in sports. No other team has the tradition and spirit of the New York Yankees. Names like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Maris, Rizzuto, Martin, Ford, Berra, Stengel, Slaughter, Jackson, and Mattingly represent more than men who played the game -- they are part of the great mystique that causes all Yankee fans to swell with pride. From the first pitch of the New York Yankees in 1903 through the 1995 season.

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: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1571670114
• ISBN 13: 9781571670113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 535
• Editor: Lake Russ K