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The Yankee Years
I just checked Amazon.com’s list of top-selling books expecting to see Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer in it’s usual spot at the top. I was stunned to find THE YANKEE YEARS, The new collaboration by Tom Verducci and Joe Torre suddenly in first place. The Yankees surely wish to do the same….
The book, which comes out this week, has been getting a lot of press. Joe Torre, the former Yankee manager took the Yankees to the highest heights, world championships. When the team stopped winning, Yankee ownership (the Steinbrenners) began disrespecting Torre, and he left.
Torre now manages the LA Dodgers. They made the play-offs last year, as the Yankees failed to qualify for the play-offs for the first time in many a moon.
That failure to qualify for the play-offs has the Yankees spending money in the off-season like drunken sailors. The Yankees occupy a separate planet from the rest of us. There is no bad economy in Yankeeland…
Tom Verducci is a highly respected writer for Sports Illustrated. Apparently this book is written in a bizarre style, with Joe Torre speaking in the third person.
I’m still looking forward to reading it.
I love dirty laundry….
Here’s our baseball word of the day: tibbies Syn. of teammates batted in. (The Dickson Baseball Dictionary)
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By vick
February 4, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this
The book is still at #1 in sales at Amazon.com…..By lmj
February 2, 2009 8:42 PM | Link to this
Ah, yes! Billy Martin.By vick
February 2, 2009 11:22 AM | Link to this
Growing up in Des Moines I had a dad who was a die-hard Cub fan. Being a Cub fan, DIE HARD is always the operative term. During my father’s lifetime the Cubbies never did squat. I knew better. My first love was for the Minnesota Twins of Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva. In the summer of 1977 I was living in Boston and had my baptism as a Red Sox fan. My neighbor in Boston was a hardcore Yankee fan (he was from Long Island) and we spent many an evening watching the local broadcasts of the BoSox while he immersed me in this legendary rivalry. I learned to love Dewey Evans and Jim Rice while despising the Yankees. That was a great summer. You might recall that Billy Martin was coaching the Yankees and having it out with Reggie Jackson. Those were the days. I have loved the Boston Red Sox ever since…By lmj
February 1, 2009 8:45 PM | Link to this
Growing up an avid Detroit Tiger fan, my next root would be anti-Yankee (I’ve even chastised a cousin who now lives in NYC and doesn’t root for the Mets - Detroit is still her first love). That does not mean that I don’t recognize a class act when I see one. I’ve always thought Torre is a class act. I’m debating about the read since it’s a healthy volume.By vick
February 1, 2009 7:27 PM | Link to this
rib-eye Var. of ribbie, Syn. steak (Paul Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary)By downsized
February 1, 2009 6:32 PM | Link to this
for me it’s always been ribbies, not tibbies. I’ve neber heard a ballplayer at any level use the word tibbies. I coached 13 years from t-ball to senior league. Was on the staering committee of a AAA team for many years and known hundreds of players, staff and scouts. Never heard of this one.