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Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty : The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness by Buster Olney (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060515066
ISBN-139780060515065
eBay Product ID (ePID)30508674
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Night of the Yankee Dynasty : the Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicBaseball / History, Baseball / General, American Government / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Sports & Recreation
AuthorBuster Olney
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsThe best contemporary book about baseball in several years. Yankee fans and haters alike will find it riveting., Buster Olney... has chronicled the definitive story of the Bronx Bombers at the end of the 20th century., A wonderful story about money, power, and baseball that will keep you reading until the bottom of the 9th., Vivid, informed, and gracefully written, The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty is sports writing at its very best., A well-mulled, highly atmospheric, and richly versed story of the Bronx Bombers' great 1996-2001 ride., A remarkably prescient work . Olney's observations are eerily germane to . [2004's] postseason meltdown.
SynopsisFor an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues, earning the love of their hometown fans and the grudging admiration of players and spectators everywhere. For the members of the team, though, baseball Yankees-style was an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the wheel, the Yankees money machine spun out of control, and as the team's revenues skyrocketed, salaries were inflated unimaginably -- and smaller teams found themselves priced out of competition. True devotees of the game suffered, and so did Steinbrenner's employees. Emboldened by New York's unforgiving fans, Steinbrenner let the Yankees know loud and clear that their fat paychecks carried an equally exaggerated mandate: win now, and win all the time -- any season that doesn't end in a World Series victory is an unforgivable failure. As the spending and emotion spiraled, careers were made and broken, friendships began and ended, and a sports dynasty rose and fell. In The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty , Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, providing insightful portraits of the stars, the foot soldiers, the coaches, the manager, and the Boss himself. With profound knowledge of the game and an insider's familiarity with the team, Olney also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable, ultimately harmful to the sport, and led inevitably to that warm autumn night in Arizona -- the last night of the Yankee dynasty., For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues, earning the love of their hometown fans and the grudging admiration of players and spectators everywhere. For the members of the team, though, baseball Yankees-style was an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the wheel, the Yankees money machine spun out of control, and as the team's revenues skyrocketed, salaries were inflated unimaginably -- and smaller teams found themselves priced out of competition. True devotees of the game suffered, and so did Steinbrenner's employees. Emboldened by New York's unforgiving fans, Steinbrenner let the Yankees know loud and clear that their fat paychecks carried an equally exaggerated mandate: win now, and win all the time -- any season that doesn't end in a World Series victory is an unforgivable failure. As the spending and emotion spiraled, careers were made and broken, friendships began and ended, and a sports dynasty rose and fell. In The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, providing insightful portraits of the stars, the foot soldiers, the coaches, the manager, and the Boss himself. With profound knowledge of the game and an insider's familiarity with the team, Olney also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable, ultimately harmful to the sport, and led inevitably to that warm autumn night in Arizona -- the last night of the Yankee dynasty.
LC Classification NumberGV875.N4O56 2004
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