The Canadian Press reported yesterday that “Joe Torre to recall his New York Yankees 
years in planned memoir.”
The book, currently untitled, will be co-authored by Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci and will include Torre’s memories of the Yankees, with whom he won four World Series championships, and general thoughts on the game.
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Inc., will publish the book in the spring of 2009.
So how much will Joe get for the book (in addition to the three-year $13 million contract he just signed with the L.A. Dodgers? According to the Press
Financial terms … were not disclosed, although a publishing official with knowledge of the negotiations, who did not wish to be identified because of publishing protocol, said Torre will receive $1.8 million. The biggest sports book deal in recent memory was for tennis great Andre Agassi, who has an international following and reportedly received at least $5 million from Alfred A. Knopf in an agreement announced last March.
“While as a corporate policy we never reveal the advances we pay authors, I can say there are no incentive clauses in the contract,” William Thomas, editor-in-chief of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, said in a statement about the Torre deal.
Here’s the Newsday version of the story. And Publisher’s Weekly covered the story in today’s e-mail alert.
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