The Yankees: An Authorized History of the New York Yankees Book

If there were a listing in the record books for "Most Words Written About a Team," the Bombers would win in a walk, and Phil Pepe, a press-box staple for more than four decades, would find an asterisk beside his name for both the quantity and quality of the verbiage he's contributed. To commemorate the magnificent Yankees of '98, he's revised and updated his comprehensive and lavishly illustrated history of the team that Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, and Maris built to include the compelling stories that comprised the 24th championship edition: David Wells's perfecto, Scott Brosius's rise from the ashes, El Duque's improbable flight to freedom, Darryl Strawberry's battle with cancer, and the stunning World Series sweep. As authoritative as it is "authorized," The Yankees beautifully combines words and images to form a thorough and lively chronicle, pulsing with anecdote and immediacy, and capped with a series of useful listings of team and individual accomplishments, most notably the essential raw materials that congealed into DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and of Maris's seemingly untouchable plateau of 61 home runs. --Jeff SilvermanRead More