Download or read book The Yankees in the Early 1960s written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the New York Yankees over a decade which saw them at the top of the American League and at the bottom. Based upon thorough background research and interviews with over 100 former players, the book covers the major stories of the period as well as some not seen elsewhere. The seventh games of the 1960 and 1962 World Series are described in detail, replete with the remembrances of many of the participants. The infamous Phil Linz harmonica incident, the fruitless search for another Mickey Mantle and the surprising emergence of Mel Stottlemyre are some of the stories that make the early '60s such a fascinating era in Yankee lore.
Download or read book Yankee Pride written by Carroll Conklin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the most complete history of the New York Yankees in the 1960s. Yankee Pride chronicles how the New York Yankees won consecutive American League pennants during the first five years of the 1960s, then fell from glory starting in 1965, and landed in the American League cellar in 1966, going from league best to looking up at the rest in just two seasons. The story follows how the Yankees returned to respectability in the last three years of the decade, winning on pitching and defense rather than the power hitting that had been so synonymous with Yankee baseball in the team's glory days.Yankee Pride takes you year-by-year, month-by-month, even game-by-game, as the entire decade of triumph and struggle unfolds before your eyes. It includes player profiles of Mantle, Maris, Ford, Stottlemyre, Murcer and more, and includes over 200 photographs. Enjoy the memories.
Download or read book Yankee Batboy written by Anthony Florio and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yankee Pride written by Carroll Conklin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankee Pride tells the story of the New York Yankees during the decade of the 1960s. It chronicles how the team won consecutive American League pennants during the first five years of the 1960s, winning two World Series titles and losing two others in dramatic -- and, for Yankee fans, heartbreaking -- seven-game series. The story then turns to the Yankees' fall from glory starting in 1965, and then into the American League cellar in 1966, the first time that the Yankee organization had finished in last place since its pre-Ruthian days of 1912. The story follows how the Yankees returned to respectability in the last three years of the decade, winning on pitching and defense rather than the power-hitting that had been so synonymous with Yankee baseball in the team's glory days.Yankee Pride takes you year-by-year, month-by-month, even game-by-game. The entire decade unfolds before your eyes as you watch the Yankee greats of the 1960s: Mickey Mantle hitting for power and average, compiling amazing offensive numbers despite the injuries that increasingly limited his playing time. Roger Maris as he leads the American League in runs batted in while winning back-to-back MVP awards … and smashes Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, the record once believed could never be broken. Watch Whitey Ford go 8-0 in June of 1961 on his way to a 25-4 Cy Young season ... on his way to a Hall of Fame career. Follow two young pitchers (Al Downing in 1963 and Mel Stottlemyre in 1964) whose amazing debut seasons propelled the Yankees to pennants in tough races.Meet the 1960s Yankee players who made the franchise the most successful in baseball history: Slugging first baseman Bill “Moose” Skowron, World Series dynamo Bobby Richardson, 1963 MVP Elston Howard, pitcher Luis Arroyo who redefined forever the role of closer, and so many more. Meet the Yankee stars of the late 1960s, whose fine play fell short of glory but who propelled the franchise back to respectability: outfielders like Tom Tresh and Bobby Murcer, hitters like Joe Pepitone, pitchers like Fritz Peterson, Stan Bahnsen, Hal Reniff and Lindy McDaniel.No other baseball history gives you so many ways to relive the excitement and drama of the New York Yankees in the 1960s.
Download or read book Farewell to the Last Golden Era written by Bill Morales and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the original 16 major league teams elected to admit new clubs. This in-depth look at that pivotal season--the last played with only the original 16 teams--follows the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates on their march to the 1960 World Series. The trials and triumphs of these two teams reflect the changes, large and small, that came to define the sport in the following decades--surnames on the backs of the uniforms, exploding scoreboards, the increasing impact of international players, and foremost of all, expansion. Marking the end of the "Golden Age" of baseball and the beginning of the ascendancy of professional football as the national pastime, this historic season witnessed the intersection of the past and future of American professional sports.
Download or read book Yankees Baseball written by Richard Bak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as national icons, a time when men wearing baggy, flannel uniforms and sporting pancake gloves played for little more than the love of the game. In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New York Yankees. The Yankees won 29 American League pennants and 20 World Series during this golden era, their diamond exploits thrilling generations of fans and their statistical achievements becoming familiar numbers in the lore of the game: Babe Ruths 714 home runs; Lou Gehrigs 2,130 consecutive games played; Joe DiMaggios 56-game hitting streak; Casey Stengels 5 straight world championships; Mickey Mantles 565-foot home run; and Roger Mariss 61 round-trippers. The tradition of excellence began in the 1920s with the Murderers Row teams, named for their killer batting lineups, and continued through the early 1960s, by which time the Bronx Bombers had established themselves as the most successful franchise in sports history.
Download or read book Yankees Heroes written by Carroll Conklin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These were the heroes who owned the summers of the 1960s. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Bobby Murcer and Mel Stottlemyre. Ralph Terry and Bobby Richardson. Luis Arroyo and Roger Maris. During the summers of the 1960s, the heroes of the Bronx wore Yankees pinstripes. On their best days (which, after 1964, were admittedly too few), they were entertaining and inspiring. They smote hated rivals and sent more of their best talent to the All-Star game than any other American League team. They were gods among mortals. Men among boys. Yet on their worst days, these Yankees heroes broke our hearts, squandering late-inning leads and pre-season expectations ... but what they never lost was our devotion. They were the heroes of our youth. Now their stories are collected in Yankees Heroes: Remembering the New York Yankees Who Helped Make the 1960s Baseball's Real Golden Age. The book profiles the best (and a few of the worst) of the New York Yankees of the 1960s. In all, there are 63 profiles of the infielders, outfielders, catchers and pitchers who played for the New York Yankees in the 1960s. Do you remember ... The hard-throwing right-hander who led the American League in wins in 1962? (page 106) The Gold Glove second baseman who was a 5-time All-Star and a World Series Most Valuable Player? (page 20) The shortstop who won 1962's Rookie of the Year but finished that season (and his career) in left field? (page 44) The All-Star outfielder who led the American League in RBIs (and a couple other categories) in 1961? (page 40) The hard-luck right-hander who was baseball's biggest loser until he joined the Yankees bullpen ... and saved the 1964 pennant? (page 97) The slugging outfielder who last pitched for the Yankees ... and never allowed a career earned run? (page 31) The bullpen ace who won 15 games in relief in 1961 (and saved 29) ... but won only 2 more games in his career? (page 67) The hard-hitting outfielder who was the 1962 American League MVP ... despite missing 30 games? (page 38) The Hall of Fame left-hander who didn't have a 20-win season until the age of 32? (page 83) The Yankee right-hander who won 20 games three times in the 1960s ... and lost 20 once? (page 104) Their stories are here. Enjoy the memories.
Download or read book October 1964 written by David Halberstam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling” New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, capturing the 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals (Newsweek). David Halberstam, an avid sports writer with an investigative reporter’s tenacity, superbly details the end of the fifteen-year reign of the New York Yankees in October 1964. That October found the Yankees going head-to-head with the St. Louis Cardinals for the World Series pennant. Expertly weaving the narrative threads of both teams’ seasons, Halberstam brings the major personalities on the field—from switch-hitter Mickey Mantle to pitcher Bob Gibson—to life. Using the teams’ subcultures, Halberstam also analyzes the cultural shifts of the sixties. The result is a unique blend of sports writing and cultural history as engrossing as it is insightful. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
Download or read book We Would Have Played for Nothing written by Fay Vincent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the events of baseball in the 1950s and 1960s from the perspectives of the players, covering such subjects as the careers of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider.
Download or read book The Kansas City A s the Wrong Half of the Yankees written by Jeff Katz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange relationship between the Yankees and the A's
Download or read book Yankees Century written by Glenn Stout and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and essays help chronicle one hundred years of history for the New York Yankees professional baseball team, profiling key players, coaches, and moments in the team's history.
Download or read book Yankees Baseball written by Richard G. Bak and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as national icons, a time when men wearing baggy, flannel uniforms and sporting pancake gloves played for little more than "the love of the game." In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New York Yankees. The Yankees won 29 American League pennants and 20 World Series during this golden era, their diamond exploits thrilling generations of fans and their statistical achievements becoming familiar numbers in the lore of the game: Babe Ruth's 714 home runs; Lou Gehrig's 2,130 consecutive games played; Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak; Casey Stengel's 5 straight world championships; Mickey Mantle's 565-foot home run; and Roger Maris's 61 round-trippers. The tradition of excellence began in the 1920s with the Murderers' Row teams, named for their "killer" batting lineups, and continued through the early 1960s, by which time the Bronx Bombers had established themselves as the most successful franchise in sports history.
Download or read book The New York Yankees in Popular Culture written by David Krell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Reggie Jackson go from superstar to icon? Why did Joe DiMaggio's nickname change from "Deadpan Joe" to "Joltin' Joe"? How did Seinfeld affect public perception of George Steinbrenner? The New York Yankees' dominance on the baseball diamond has been lauded, analyzed and chronicled. Yet the team's broader impact on popular culture has been largely overlooked--until now. From Ruth's called shot to the Reggie! candy bar, this collection of new essays offers untold histories, new interpretations and fresh analyses of baseball's most successful franchise. Contributors explore the Yankee mystique in film, television, theater, music and advertising.
Download or read book Yankee Greats written by Bob Woods and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankee Greats features 100 baseball cards of the greatest and most popular Yankees from the celebrated trading-card company Topps. Showcasing original cards for hall-of-fame players such as Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra, and current heroes like Derek Jeter, this unique package provides a fun and fresh approach to revisiting America’s favorite pastime with one of baseball’s most beloved teams. Since the Yankee’s humble beginnings in 1903 as the New York Highlanders to today’s star-studded team, the Bronx Bombers have won 27 World Championships—more titles than any other professional sports franchise in history. Yankee Greats will let Yankee and baseball fans alike revel in and reminisce over so many of the players that helped make baseball what it is today, and these legendary cards will bring back fond memories for both young and old collectors.
Download or read book Core Four written by Phil Pepe and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the careers of four instrumental players who turned around the Yankees ball club, this book shares behind-the-scenes stories from their early days together in the minors through the 2013 season, and follows them on their majestic ride to the top of the baseball world. At a time when the New York Yankees were in free fall, having failed to win a World Series in 17 years and had not played in one in 14 years—the Bronx Bombers' longest drought since before the days of Babe Ruth—along came four young players whose powerful impact returned the franchise to its former glory. They were a diverse group from different parts of the globe: Mariano Rivera, a right-handed pitcher from Panama, who was destined to become the all-time record holder in saves and baseball's greatest closer; Derek Jeter, a shortstop raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, who would become the first Yankee to accumulate 3,000 hits; Jorge Posada, an infielder-turned-catcher from Puerto Rico, who would hit more home runs than any Yankees catcher except the legendary Hall of Famer Yogi Berra; and Andy Pettitte, a left-handed pitcher born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who would win more postseason games than any player in baseball history. Together they formed the “Core Four,” and would go on to play as teammates for 13 seasons during which time they would help the Yankees advance to the postseason 12 times, win the American League pennant seven times, and take home five World Series trophies. This book follows these phenoms from the minor leagues to the present, detailing their significant contributions to a winning major league franchise. This 2014 edition updates readers on Jeter's struggles with injuries and recovery, Rivera's final season, and Pettitte's and Jeter's plans moving forward.
Download or read book New York Yankees Fans Bucket List written by Mark Feinsand and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every New York Yankees fan has a bucket list of activities to take part in at some point in their lives. But even the most die-hard fans haven't done everything there is to experience in and around the Bronx. From visiting Stan's Sports Bar to sitting in the bleachers for the roll call, author Mark Feinsand provides ideas, recommendations, and insider tips for must-see places and can't-miss activities near Yankee Stadium. But not every experience requires a trip to New York; long-distance Yankees fans can cross some items off their list from the comfort of their own homes. Whether you're attending every home game or supporting the Yanks from afar, there's something for every fan to do in The New York Yankees Fans' Bucket List.
Download or read book The Blunder Years written by Ron Quartararo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone once said, There once was a team so strong, that when a player hit a single, he was stopping the rally. Such was the legacy of the New York Yankees through the early 1960s. Love em or hate em, theirs was a legacy of winning, of great players, of class and dignity. Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle were household names, and their participation in the fall classic was routinely anticipated. That would all come to a screeching halt in 1965, when the Yankees would begin an unforeseen and precipitous downslide. Finishing in last place in 1966, the team would languish under new CBS ownership, succumbing to the specters of age, injuries, mismanagement, and neglect, with no one to replace their immortal superstars. This was the Horace Clark era, the dark ages of the New York Yankees that I call the blunder years.
