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Damned yankees

by Bill Madden

Baseball team ownersSPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / HistoryTRAVEL / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)HistoryBiographyNew York Yankees (Baseball team)New york yankees (baseball team)Baseball, biography

"A firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the turmoil that pervaded the New York Yankee franchise in the late 1970s, this book discusses George Steinbrenner's purchase and continual rebuilding of the team--alongside a colorful cast of players and businessmen. Not merely a look at the time spent in Yankee Stadium, this chronicle also describes the team's public arguments, practical jokes, drunken excess, self-aggrandizing publicity efforts, and the ups and downs that accompanied the Yankees and George Steinbrenner through the 1970s and beyond"--

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Book data: Open Library