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Summary: WASHINGTON POST.COM : DEFINITIVE
Review: "A definitive chronology of one of America's legendary sports teams." ...............................................................
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Summary: KNoxNews.com: MOST NOTABLE
Review: "Baseball books, like the first pitch of the season, usually come out in the spring. But this year, a remarkable group of books about different aspects of the national pasttime have been published just in time for the playoffs and World Series. Here are some short reviews of the most notable. "A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team" by Harvey Frommer (Berkley, [$$], 428 pages. Frommer, the author of more than 30 sports books, presents lots of facts, including a Yankees timeline, a who's who of players, managers, coaches and front office types, a look at the best and worst Yankees teams, quotes by and about the Yankees and a bunch of team stats and a quiz..." ...............................................................
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Summary: **ANOTHER GEM FROM HARVEY FROMMER***...
Review: "Harvey Frommer, one of the game's most prolific authors, has come out with another gem in A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team (Berkley, $$$). Rather than a straight-forward prosaic history, Frommer is just plain fun with his chapters on memorable moments; a Yankee "who's who"; the best and worst in the long history of the team; quotes and nifty nicknames; a "by-the-numbers" look at the club; and a chapter on the "House that Ruth Built" itself, an appreciation for the most cherished venue in all of sports."
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Summary: A YANKEE CENTURY READS LIKE A NOVEL!!!!!
Review: "It reads like a novel, a terrific book by one of the most prolific sports authors in America. So many unique things. The "March of Yankee Time" chapter has so many insights and things odd and interesting about the Yankees - I learned a lot. The book is very up-to-date through 2002.! Just marvelous." ...............................................................
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Summary: TERRIFIC, TERRIFIC BOOK
Review: "A YANKEE CENTURY IS A MUST HAVE FOR YANKEE FANS, FOR ALL BASEBALL FANS. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN.'
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Summary: A LOVE OF A YANKEE BOOK!
Review: "If you love baseball, if you love the New York Yankees, you will love this book."
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK - -- ESPN RADIO
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Harvey Frommer has written a lot of wonderful and readable books. This is a great book. It has a good layout and includes all kinds of things about the New York Yankees.
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Summary: DETAILED VOLUME, SOCIETY AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH
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This detailed volume celebrates a legendary century of Yankee history. Included in the book are rare photographs, statistics, a Yankee quiz, introduction by Yankee great Paul O'Neill and profiles of such legends as Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, Babe Ruth, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio and more.
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Summary: SABR BULLETIN: A DETAILED VOLUME*...
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This detailed volume celebrates a legendary century of Yankee history. Included in the book are rare photographs, statistics, a Yankee quiz, introduction by Yankee great Paul O'Neill and profiles of such legends as Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, Babe Ruth, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio and more....
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Summary: VALLEY NEWS: A BOOK MADE WITH YANKEE FANS IN MIND.
Review: 424 pages; .... By Dan Mackie
Valley News Staff Writer
I shoulda been a Yankee fan. Well, that's what I learned from reading A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team, by Harvey Frommer. He's a teacher in the Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College "and a longtime Yankee fan,'' according to the book jacket. He's also major league prolific, the author of more than 30 sports books and a number of popular oral histories. Yankee Century is a book for the fan, the true believer, for 12-year-olds tucked in at night in Yankee pinstriped pajamas (and for 40-year-olds tucked in at night in Yankee pinstriped pajamas, for that matter). The Yankees, according to this telling, have been an assemblage of characters (Casey Stengel, Lefty Gomez, Yogi Berra) and demigods, (The Babe, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle). If the Dallas Cowboys are America's Team, then this was Heaven's Team. Greatness followed the players around like an adoring shadow. Sadly, it's sort of true. In the last century, the Yankees have collected pennants and World Series victories as if they were routine stuff. The Yankees were the Big Dog, Microsoft, Joe Louis, General Motors. Other teams have risen up and taken their shots at greatness, but no other major league team has been as consistently good. Time for an admission: I'm a Red Sox fan. History has not been kind: The Sox are the Titanic, the Yankees the iceberg. I read this book out of professional obligation. I've had my nose rubbed in the greatness of the Yankees all my life. The Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918. The Yankees have since won 26 times. They've been feasting, while Red Sox fans have been left with bitter crumbs. But enough about the Red Sox, baseball's longest-running Shakespearean tragedy. ("My kingdom for a first baseman. ... Out, damn Bucky Dent! ... What fools these managers be!") A Yankee Century takes the reader through New York's glory, and a couple of dry spells. It's mostly uncritical, the way sportswriting used to be, before reality and cynicism intruded. That's kind of refreshing in a way. If we wanted to think about labor strife and corporate shenanigans, we'd read the Wall Street Journal, not box scores. Alas, that's too simplistic, but baseball seemingly was meant to be a simple pastime. Yankee Century offers all the highlights, funny quotes, trivia (Iron man Lou Gehrig pinch-hit for Pee-Wee Wanninger, not Wally Pipp, to start his historic streak), lists and quizzes a true Yankee fan might want. Other fans wrestle with the question of whether all this Yankee success has been good for the game. Much of it has been due to smarts and talent, but much has also been due to the Yankees' dominant revenue stream. If you can't beat 'em, outspend 'em. Yankee fans, of course, do not worry much about this. The last century was theirs and presumably the new one won't be bad, either
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