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Those Damn Yankees - The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (Paperback, New edition)
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Those Damn Yankees - The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (Paperback, New edition)
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This paperback edition of Dean Chadwin's widely-discussed book has
been expanded to include the Yankee's World Series appearance in
the 1999 season. The New York Yankees have won twenty-five
championships, more than any other American professional sports
franchise. The team's rich history includes a color bar, the
towering home runs and bottomless appetites of Babe Ruth, the early
and intensely lamented death of Lou Gehrig, frequent labor disputes
between players and owners, and the free verse of Yogi Berra and
Phil Rizzuto. The 1999 season has emerged as one of the franchise's
most memorable both on and off the field. As the squad raced
through an all-time record for victories to win the World Series,
observers wondered whether the club's stadium would return to its
wandering ways of a century ago. The Yankees abandoned Baltimore in
1902. After seventy-five years in the Bronx, Yankee management are
now pursuing a move to Manhattan or the suburbs that could tap into
millions of public dollars. Those Damn Yankees is a riveting and
unconventional foray into the murky underworld of baseball, from
the incipient sexual desire of young girls visiting the Derek Jeter
on-line fansite to the boozy macho heart of the Yankee Nation in
the now-endangered bleachers. In compelling asides, Dean Chadwin
looks at issues such as baseball's cult of memory, numerology in
sport and society, the emergence of an anti-competitive baseball
league of haves and have-nots, and a sporting cartel's exploitation
of inter-city economic warfare.
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