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Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees by Joel Sherman, David Cone (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: May 2006
- 312pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2006
- Publisher:Rodale Press, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 312pp
- ISBN-13: 9781594862441
- ISBN: 1594862443
Synopsis
In the fall of 1955, the Yankees suffered a crushing playoff setback to the Seattle Mariners, ending their season and Buck Showalter's tenure as manager. However, from the ruins of one of their most devastating losses, the Yankees forged a dynasty. Now, veteran New York Post columnist Joel Sherman tells the story of how the championship Yankees were constructed and vividly recaptures a 1996 season when a down-and-out manager named Joe Torre and the untested duo of Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera laid the groundwork for greatness. No writer has spent more time with the Yankees in the past 18 seasons than Sherman, and from his years of on-the-spot reporting and hundreds of new interviews, he delivers the inside story on how the Bronx Bombers journeyed from the depths of despair to the Canyon of Heroes.
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JOEL SHERMAN has been writing for the New York Post since 1989, first as a beat reporter covering the Yankees from 1989 through 1995, and as a baseball columnist ever since.
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Good for Fans, But Terribly Writtenby Anonymous
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February 21, 2007: I'm a huge Yankee fan so I enjoyed the opportunity to remember the events of their first championship season in nearly two decades, but Sherman desperately needs an editor. The book completely lacks structure, with tangent building on tangent to form an incoherent mess. There are diamonds in the rough in the form of interesting revelations, but getting to them can be hard work indeed.
A great refresherby Anonymous
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August 31, 2006: For those of us that were only about 10 or 11 during the 1996 season and don't remember every single player on our favorite team, this book not only serves as a reminder but also explains how the team was put together. The 96 season really was a season of chance and a little bit of luck. Sherman did a great job showing how everything really was pieced together to not only form the 96 champion team but the other 3 teams that followed. Very well written, hard to put down and reminds you why it's so great to be a Yankee fan.
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