Everything old is new again (Damn Yankees)

March 14, 2012

New York Times columnist Dan Barry, author of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game, posted this essay about rooting for the Yankees during their dog days of the late 1960s in the paper a couple of weeks ago. That’s kind of the way Mets fans felt post-1973 and again today.

Which reminds me that Barry contributed an essay to the new collection Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team, edited by former Sports Illustrated executive editor Rob Fleder. Barry and Fleder (who will be a guest on an upcoming Bookshelf podcast) will be among the writers ( who will participate in a panel discussion about the Yankees at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, NJ, on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. along with fellow contributors Will Leitch (Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball) and Jane Leavy (The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood). (Note that the links to the podcast have further links to the other parts. These were done when I was much less sophisticated with the technology.) Daniel Okrent, a “founding father” or fantasy baseball and author of Nine Innings and editor of The Ultimate Baseball Book, Expanded and Updated might also be on hand.

Admission to the event is free with the purchase of Damn Yankees. This one will definitely be a crowd-pleaser, so if you’d like to go, I suggest RSVP-ing ASAP (973-655-6891).

 

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