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tsbresser's review
3.0
Didn't pull any punches and exposed some of the larger egos in baseball over the past 15 years.
bostonbooksandbubbles's review against another edition
3.0
The best parts of this book were rehashed in the press in the weeks surrounding its release - Alex Rodriguez's diva attitude and Roger Clemens, naked and snorting like a bull. Verducci doesn't devote enough time to the good years of Torre's time with the Yankees, instead devoting the bulk of the book to the team's decline post-2000. The sensationalism is fun, but as a baseball fan I would have appreciated a more balanced perspective.
nameless_reader's review
2.0
This is a wonderful book any Yankees, fan correct that baseball fan. It shows the changing of baseball after [b:Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game|1301|Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game|Michael Lewis|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158120691s/1301.jpg|416305] was released. This book chronicles Torre's time in the Yankees through his 1995 start to his firing in 2007, it shows the Yankees step fall from a championship caliber team with wins in 96,98,99,and 2000 and the inefficient old veteran base timed through 2007. Though it is out of date because of the Yankees 27th World Championship, I felt it was unfair against the Yankee organization to some degree altogether skewing them as cynical. It highlighted the bad decisions on the Yankee's part spending large amounts of money on busts and aging veterans. Overall, I recommend this book, once you get into it, it shined Ton Verducci really put this story into word really well, although the beginning was slow, and it is somewhat out of date I advise you to take a look a this book, it's worth it.
stephybara's review
4.0
Very interesting, and not nearly as Yankee-centric as I expected. (Weird, I know, but there's a lot of behind-the-scenes with the Red Sox - 2003/2004 ALCS - and so on.)
Things learned:
-the Yankees have no one in their farm system
-Steinbrenner was a real jerk (e.g. scouts and other behind-the-scene personnel did not get 2000 World Series rings, but Billy Crystal and Ronan Tynan did?)
-Alex Rodriguez is an attention seeking, Derek-Jeter-obsessed creep (oh no, wait, I already knew that)
-no one liked Kevin Brown in New York
-no one liked Carl Pavano either (best quote: "Our problem right now is that we have too many pitchers on the 15-day Pavano," Mussina said one day in April. "That's what it's offically called now. Did you know that? The Pavano. His body just shut down from actually pitching for six weeks.")
A good read for baseball fans, I think.
Things learned:
-the Yankees have no one in their farm system
-Steinbrenner was a real jerk (e.g. scouts and other behind-the-scene personnel did not get 2000 World Series rings, but Billy Crystal and Ronan Tynan did?)
-Alex Rodriguez is an attention seeking, Derek-Jeter-obsessed creep (oh no, wait, I already knew that)
-no one liked Kevin Brown in New York
-no one liked Carl Pavano either (best quote: "Our problem right now is that we have too many pitchers on the 15-day Pavano," Mussina said one day in April. "That's what it's offically called now. Did you know that? The Pavano. His body just shut down from actually pitching for six weeks.")
A good read for baseball fans, I think.
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