Written as a third-person narrative with "Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Tom Verducci, "The Yankee Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from Joe Torre, the most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of the modern era.
"Sensational and heartwarming . . . lush with baseball lore, strategy and human ambition", raves "The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review" about Joe Torre's fascinating account of his professional and personal life. In "Chasing the Dream", the beloved New York Yankees manager writes from the heart about his career as a player and a manager, his ...
In this inspirational business guide, Torre shares the management techniques he used to transform the New York Yankees--plagued in 1996 by a string of losses and subsequent morale and personnel problems--into repeat World Series champions. Weaving colorful anecdotes with practical business advice, this book outlines how the principles essential to ...
Chronicling changes in baseball over the past half century, one of the most astute players to ever play the game pays homage to the great players of the past and present and analyzes what's wrong--and right--with baseball today. Two 8-page photo inserts.
"Zimmer's baseball life has been a full one, and half a century of his stories makes for a bountiful book." - Allen St. John, "New York Times Book Review". "On every page, he is there to be appreciated for his journey as a player, manager, and coach for more than half a century as well as for his wisdom, his humor, and just being himself." - Dave ...
Youth sports have become a pressure cooker of expectations. Parents scream abuse at players, coaches, and referees. Coaches demand that their teams win, at any cost. Kids practice day and night. They face intense pressure to score, to win, to succeed. But is this the measure of success we want to impress upon our children? In RAISING A TEAM PLAYER ...
In this inspirational business guide, Torre shares the management techniques he used to transform the New York Yankees--plagued in 1996 by a string of losses and subsequent morale and personnel problems--into repeat World Series champions. Weaving colorful anecdotes with practical business advice, this book outlines how the principles essential to ...
He is, perhaps, the most popular modern player in pinstripes. And many consider him a Yankees legend in the making. Derek Jeter has taken New York by storm and is expected to lead the World Champions into the new millennium. What better way to get to know Jeter than by reading the thoughts of teammates, opponents, coaches and baseball pundits 7 ...
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