by Derek Gentile. MVP Books, 2009.
This was one of these titles that, too me and like many movie trailers, was more exciting than the actual product.
I was actually expetcing a philosophical (or at least mock) treatise about how the Bronx Bombers reflected many issues of life, the ups and downs, the victories and defeats. You know, deep stuff.
Instead what we have from Gentile — author of such excellent offering as Baseball’s Best 1000 and the new Splitters, Squeezes, and Steals : The Inside Story of Baseball’s Greatest Techniques, Strategies, and Plays — an album of photos and quotes about the Yankees from their nascent days to the present, in roughly chronological order.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Quite the contrary, many of those photos, almost 200 of them, are rarely seen (a nice shot of Mickey Mantle in a hospital bed, happily surrounded by a bevy of nurses; Roger Maris planting a kiss on the cheek of Mrs. Babe Ruth) and are supplemented by applicable aphorisms and captions to further explain the situations.
The final page is the oft-quoted Berra-ism, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” A very apropos ending.
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