Presents a detailed history of major league baseball's most successful franchise, examining the management strategies, economic forces, social changes, political and legal pressures, and other decisions that shaped the Yaknees.
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A fascinating history of baseball's most successful franchise, on and off the field. In time for the franchise centennial in 2003, Taking on the Yankees chronicles the team's rise to dominance from the vantage point of the Bronx Bombers' three greatest rivals: the New York Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Based on extensive research in primary sources, this book focuses on the off-the-field circumstances and decisionsthe management strategies, economic forces, social changes, and political and legal pressuresthat played a decisive role in shaping the Yankees' achievements on the diamond. Henry D. Fetter sheds new light on some of baseball's most memorable events, commanding personalities, and enduring controversies, from the upstart Yanks' purchase of Babe Ruth and their showdown against John McGraw's swaggering Giants to Branch Rickey's organizational revolution in St. Louis, from the Dodgers' heartbreaking move to Los Angeles to George Steinbrenner's revitalization of the Yankee dynasty. The result is an exceptional history of baseball's past century and a riveting exploration of the often-misunderstood relationship between business and sports. 16 pages of photographs.
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