The Yankee Years » (Reprint)

Joe Torre played for the Braves, the Cardinals, and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007, Torre managed the New York Yankees. He is currently the manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 
Tom Verducci is the senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and SportsIllustrated.com, and a baseball analyst for the MLB Network. He coauthored Joe Torre’s first book, Chasing the Dream, and has also published an anthology of his work from Sports Illustrated, titled Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci.

A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre s twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.

Joe Torre is the most successful and most respected baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the country. Famously diplomatic during his tenure with the Yankees, Torre finally speaks out about what it was like building and managing the dynasty during those twelve glorious and tumultuous years. Written as a third-person narrative with Sports Illustrated Senior Baseball Writer Tom Verducci, THE YANKEE YEARS is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees organization from top to bottom.


From the Compact Disc edition.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

…a lively chronicle …What this book does…very persuasively is chart the rise and fall of one of baseball's great dynasties, while showing the care and feeding it took to bring the city of New York four championships in five years.

1 Underdogs 1

2 A Desperation to Win 41

3 Getting an Edge 85

4 The Boss 118

5 Mystique and Aura 144

6 Baseball Catches Up 165

7 The Ghosts Make a Final Appearance 198

8 The Issues of Alex 238

9 Marching to Different Drumbeats 261

10 End of the Curse 285

11 The Abyss 314

12 Broken Trust 341

13 "We Have a Problem" 365

14 The Last Race 403

15 Attack of the Midges 432

16 The End 466

Index 483