Dynasty : The New York Yankees 1949-1964
by Peter Golenbock
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Author: Peter GolenbockEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0809223945
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Book Review: Fantastic baseball book
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm ambivalent about the Yankees, but this is certainly one of the best baseball books I've ever read. The research is incredibly extensive and amazingly detailed, the accounts of games are lively, there are great quotations and stories, and the interviews with former players are enlightening. The reader gets a great sense of many ballplayers as people, and the only guy who really comes off negatively is Roger Maris. Golenbock seems to try too hard to justify Maris' actions, and although one can sympathize with Maris, who occasionally seems to be an OK guy, he really seems to have been a jerk. As great as the book is, there are some minor flaws. In addition to a lot of missing commas, there are factual mistakes and inconsistencies. Some examples are calling Dick Groat "Dick Grant," writing that the 1960 NL champion Pittsburgh Pirates had won their first pennant since 1972 (!), claiming early in the book that the Yankees always traveled by plane and then writing for hundreds of pages about the Yankees riding trains, saying that Yankees executive George Weiss was so formal that he didn't refer to himself in the first person when every quotation from Weiss is in fact in the first person, and mixing up country singers Charley Pride and Charlie Rich. Nevertheless, these mistakes are minor, and this is indeed a great, wonderfully detailed baseball book (which truly deserves to be back in print).
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