The New York Times Story of the Yankees

The New York Times Story of the Yankees

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The New York Times Story of the Yankees

**Coming May 2012** — Click here to pre-order
Experience a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of the Yankees, Major League Baseball’s most successful team, as told through the stories of their hometown newspaper, The New York Times.

The New York Yankees are the most storied franchise in baseball history. They consistently draw the largest home and away crowds of any team, command the largest broadcast audiences in baseball, and enthrall the greatest number of online followers and fans.

After all, you’re one of those fans, right?

The New York Times Story of the Yankees collects more than 350 articles chronicling the team’s most famous milestones–as well as the best writing about the ball club–as reported in The New York Times. Each article is hand-selected by veteran sportswriter (and hardcore baseball junkie) Dave Anderson, creating the most complete and compelling history to date about the Yankees.

Hundreds of black-and-white photographs capture every era and every highlight of the renowned New York Yankees.

Editor Dave Anderson is a true fan–and who better to collect a book for fans and Yankee history buffs than one of their own?
Organized by era, the book covers the biggest stories and events in Yankee history, such as the purchase of Babe Ruth, Roger Maris’ 61st home run, and David Cone’s perfect game. It chronicles:
  • The team’s 27 World Series championships
  • 40 American League pennants
  • Their ongoing rivalry with the Boston Red Sox
  • controversial owners, players, and managers
  • and more than you can even imagine!

The articles span the years from 1903–when the team was known as the New York Highlanders–to the present, and include stories from well-known and beloved Times reporters such as Arthur Daley, John Keran, Leonard Koppett, Red Smith, Tyler Kepner, Ira Berkow, Richard  Sandomir,  Jim Roach, and George Vecsey.

Dave Anderson is one of the leading American sportswriters of our time. He covered the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Brooklyn Eagle before moving to the New York Journal-American in n1955. In 1966 he began writing for The New York Times and was given his own column in 1971. He was the 1994 winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) Red Smith Award for distinguished sports-column writing. He was inducted into the National Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2005, he received the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. He is the author of 21 books and has written more than 350 magazine articles. Anderson now resides in Tenafly, New Jersey.