2015, ISBN: 9780802717450

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Steve Crandall (Team Photographer) and George Kali. The format is… Mehr…

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Steve Crandall (Team Photographer) and George Kali. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. xviii, [2], 227, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Records and Statistics. This is a heavy item and if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. Celebrates the winners of twenty-two world championships as it profiles the team that was home to such baseball giants as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Casey Stengel, and Joe DiMaggio. Philip Francis Pepe [peppy] (March 21, 1935 - December 13, 2015) was an American baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York City. Pepe was a longtime Yankees beat writer who chronicled franchise greats from Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle to Reggie Jackson and Derek Jeter, and also authored dozens of books on some of the most significant figures in sports, including Come Out Smokin' on heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and covering such athletes as boxing legend Muhammad Ali and basketball stars Walt Frazier and Willis Reed during a prolific career that spanned generations. Pepe covered baseball for the News from 1969 through 1981. During the same period, Pepe wrote the lead game story for every World Series from 1969 to 1981, even in years when the Yankees did not make the Series. Among his books about the Yankees, Pepe wrote My Favorite Summer 1956, with Mickey Mantle and "New York Yankees:1961" an account of the Mantle-Maris home run chase for Ruth's record. He also wrote The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra; and Slick, an autobiography of Whitey Ford. Filled with vivid photography and analysis of the greatest Yankee moments, readers will be enthralled by historical retrospectives all the way back to the early nineteen hundreds. Renowned sportswriter Phil Pepe wrote this classic history of the team to give Yankees fans the finest chroniclein photographs and textof America's team. The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City alongside the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. The team was founded in 1903 when Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise rights to the defunct Baltimore Orioles after it ceased operations and used them to establish the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913. The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a limited liability company that is controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner purchased the team from CBS in 1973. Currently, Brian Cashman is the team's general manager, and Aaron Boone is the team's field manager. The team's home games were played at the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. In 1974 and 1975, the Yankees shared Shea Stadium with the Mets, in addition to the New York Jets and the New York Giants. In 2009, they moved into a new ballpark of the same name that was constructed adjacent to the previous facility, which was closed and demolished. The team is perennially among the leaders in MLB attendance. One of the most successful professional sports clubs in the United States, the Yankees have won 20 American League East Division titles, 40 American League pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB records., Taylor Publishing Company, 1995, 3, New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Table of Contents include Prologue: October 14, 1973 and chapters S+S+S, The Savior of Kansas City?, IN the Doldrums, Endgame in Kansas City, Oakland A's Rising, On Top of the World, Repeat, Three-peat, Catfish Swims Away, Life After Catfish, Finley's Fire Sale, Finley vs. Kuhn, Charlie O.'s Last Stand, and Epilogue: Life (and Death) after Baseball. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful, and most chaotic, baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season, a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature. Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is also known as a short-lived owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and the American Basketball Association's Memphis Tams. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two aerospace researchers examine the labyrinthine life of one of baseball's most notorious owners, displaying grudging respect for their subject. NASA senior planner Green and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum senior curator Launius do a creditable job pinning down both the mundane and the extraterrestrial aspects of Charles Oscar Finley's remarkable rise. From his humble roots in Gary, Ind., Finley ascended to become owner of the Oakland Athletics in the early '70s, a team that won three consecutive World Series and featured Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter and other All-Stars and future Hall-of-Famers. Born in 1918, Finley moved to Chicago for college, then entered the insurance industry and ignited the boom-or-bust pattern that zigzagged across his entire career. After finding great financial success by insuring physicians, Finley sought to buy a baseball franchise and found a failing one in Kansas City, where all his vagaries, innovations, insecurities, weaknesses, strengths and irascibility exploded like post-game fireworks into the Kansas sky. He hired, harassed, fired and even traded managers with stunning suddenness, befriended then alienated players, fought with the press, experimented with myriad marketing promotions and began lobbying for changes in the sport, including the designated hitter, night World Series games and interleague play. Thinking Oakland would be a lucrative baseball market, he moved his team there in 1968. He was wrong. Even in their championship seasons, the A's could not draw a million fans. Finley's fall ensued, caused by a complicated and ruinous divorce, losing battles with emerging free agency, mutual animosity with commissioner Bowie Kuhn, mismanagement and a kind of regal recklessness. Most readers will agree with the authors' final assessment that Finley was an innovative, infuriating jackass whose braying was sometimes sensible, even wise., Walker & Company, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 0802717454

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[EAN: 9780802717450], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Walker & Company, New York], CHARLEY FINLEY, OAKLAND ATHLETICS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, BOWIE KUHN, KANSAS CITY REGGIE JACKSON, SA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780802717450], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Walker & Company, New York], CHARLEY FINLEY, OAKLAND ATHLETICS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, BOWIE KUHN, KANSAS CITY REGGIE JACKSON, SAL BANDO, CATFISH HUNTER, ROLLIE FINGERS, JOE RUDI, VIDA BLUE, WORLD SERIES, FREE AGENCY, MARVIN MILLER, MLB, Jacket, [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Table of Contents include Prologue: October 14, 1973 and chapters S+S+S, The Savior of Kansas City?, IN the Doldrums, Endgame in Kansas City, Oakland A's Rising, On Top of the World, Repeat, Three-peat, Catfish Swims Away, Life After Catfish, Finley's Fire Sale, Finley vs. Kuhn, Charlie O.'s Last Stand, and Epilogue: Life (and Death) after Baseball. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful, and most chaotic, baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season, a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature. Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is also known as a short-lived owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and the American Basketball Association's Memphis Tams. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two aerospace researchers examine the labyrinthine life of one of baseball's most notorious owners, displaying grudging respect for their subject. NASA senior planner Green and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum senior curator Launius do a creditable job pinning down both the mundane and the extraterrestrial aspects of Charles Oscar Finley's remarkable rise. From his humble roots in Gary, Ind., Finley ascended to become owner of the Oakland Athletics in the early '70s, a team that won three consecutive World Series and featured Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter and other All-Stars and future Hall-of-Famers. Born in 1918, Finley moved to Chicago for college, then entered the insurance industry and ignited the boom-or-bust pattern that zigzagged across his entire career. After finding great financial success by insuring physicians, Finley sought to buy a baseball franchise and found a failing one in Kansas City, where all his vagaries, innovations, insecurities, weaknesses, strengths and irascibility exploded like post-game fireworks into the Kansas sky. He hired, harassed, fired and even traded managers with stunning suddenness, befriended then alienated players, fought with the press, experimented with myriad marketing promotions and began lobbying for changes in the sport, including the designated hitter, night World Series games and interleague play. Thinking Oakland would be a lucrative baseball market, he moved his team there in 1968. He was wrong. Even in their championship seasons, the A's could not draw a million fans. Finley's fall ensued, caused by a complicated and ruinous divorce, losing battles with emerging free agency, mutual animosity with commissioner Bowie Kuhn, mismanagement and a kind of regal recklessness. Most readers will agree with the authors' final assessment that Finley was an innovative, infuriating jackass whose braying was sometimes sensible, even wise. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]., Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780802717450

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrat… Mehr…

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Table of Contents include Prologue: October 14, 1973 and chapters S+S+S, The Savior of Kansas City?, IN the Doldrums, Endgame in Kansas City, Oakland A's Rising, On Top of the World, Repeat, Three-peat, Catfish Swims Away, Life After Catfish, Finley's Fire Sale, Finley vs. Kuhn, Charlie O.'s Last Stand, and Epilogue: Life (and Death) after Baseball. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful, and most chaotic, baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season, a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature. Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is also known as a short-lived owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and the American Basketball Association's Memphis Tams. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two aerospace researchers examine the labyrinthine life of one of baseball's most notorious owners, displaying grudging respect for their subject. NASA senior planner Green and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum senior curator Launius do a creditable job pinning down both the mundane and the extraterrestrial aspects of Charles Oscar Finley's remarkable rise. From his humble roots in Gary, Ind., Finley ascended to become owner of the Oakland Athletics in the early '70s, a team that won three consecutive World Series and featured Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter and other All-Stars and future Hall-of-Famers. Born in 1918, Finley moved to Chicago for college, then entered the insurance industry and ignited the boom-or-bust pattern that zigzagged across his entire career. After finding great financial success by insuring physicians, Finley sought to buy a baseball franchise and found a failing one in Kansas City, where all his vagaries, innovations, insecurities, weaknesses, strengths and irascibility exploded like post-game fireworks into the Kansas sky. He hired, harassed, fired and even traded managers with stunning suddenness, befriended then alienated players, fought with the press, experimented with myriad marketing promotions and began lobbying for changes in the sport, including the designated hitter, night World Series games and interleague play. Thinking Oakland would be a lucrative baseball market, he moved his team there in 1968. He was wrong. Even in their championship seasons, the A's could not draw a million fans. Finley's fall ensued, caused by a complicated and ruinous divorce, losing battles with emerging free agency, mutual animosity with commissioner Bowie Kuhn, mismanagement and a kind of regal recklessness. Most readers will agree with the authors' final assessment that Finley was an innovative, infuriating jackass whose braying was sometimes sensible, even wise., Walker & Company, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780802717450

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrat… Mehr…

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Table of Contents include Prologue: October 14, 1973 and chapters S+S+S, The Savior of Kansas City?, IN the Doldrums, Endgame in Kansas City, Oakland A's Rising, On Top of the World, Repeat, Three-peat, Catfish Swims Away, Life After Catfish, Finley's Fire Sale, Finley vs. Kuhn, Charlie O.'s Last Stand, and Epilogue: Life (and Death) after Baseball. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful, and most chaotic, baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season, a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature. Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is also known as a short-lived owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and the American Basketball Association's Memphis Tams. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two aerospace researchers examine the labyrinthine life of one of baseball's most notorious owners, displaying grudging respect for their subject. NASA senior planner Green and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum senior curator Launius do a creditable job pinning down both the mundane and the extraterrestrial aspects of Charles Oscar Finley's remarkable rise. From his humble roots in Gary, Ind., Finley ascended to become owner of the Oakland Athletics in the early '70s, a team that won three consecutive World Series and featured Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter and other All-Stars and future Hall-of-Famers. Born in 1918, Finley moved to Chicago for college, then entered the insurance industry and ignited the boom-or-bust pattern that zigzagged across his entire career. After finding great financial success by insuring physicians, Finley sought to buy a baseball franchise and found a failing one in Kansas City, where all his vagaries, innovations, insecurities, weaknesses, strengths and irascibility exploded like post-game fireworks into the Kansas sky. He hired, harassed, fired and even traded managers with stunning suddenness, befriended then alienated players, fought with the press, experimented with myriad marketing promotions and began lobbying for changes in the sport, including the designated hitter, night World Series games and interleague play. Thinking Oakland would be a lucrative baseball market, he moved his team there in 1968. He was wrong. Even in their championship seasons, the A's could not draw a million fans. Finley's fall ensued, caused by a complicated and ruinous divorce, losing battles with emerging free agency, mutual animosity with commissioner Bowie Kuhn, mismanagement and a kind of regal recklessness. Most readers will agree with the authors' final assessment that Finley was an innovative, infuriating jackass whose braying was sometimes sensible, even wise., Walker & Company, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780802717450

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrat… Mehr…

New York: Walker & Company, 2010. First U. S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bill Ingalls (Author Photograph). [6], 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. The Table of Contents include Prologue: October 14, 1973 and chapters S+S+S, The Savior of Kansas City?, IN the Doldrums, Endgame in Kansas City, Oakland A's Rising, On Top of the World, Repeat, Three-peat, Catfish Swims Away, Life After Catfish, Finley's Fire Sale, Finley vs. Kuhn, Charlie O.'s Last Stand, and Epilogue: Life (and Death) after Baseball. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful, and most chaotic, baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season, a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature. Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is also known as a short-lived owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and the American Basketball Association's Memphis Tams. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two aerospace researchers examine the labyrinthine life of one of baseball's most notorious owners, displaying grudging respect for their subject. NASA senior planner Green and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum senior curator Launius do a creditable job pinning down both the mundane and the extraterrestrial aspects of Charles Oscar Finley's remarkable rise. From his humble roots in Gary, Ind., Finley ascended to become owner of the Oakland Athletics in the early '70s, a team that won three consecutive World Series and featured Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter and other All-Stars and future Hall-of-Famers. Born in 1918, Finley moved to Chicago for college, then entered the insurance industry and ignited the boom-or-bust pattern that zigzagged across his entire career. After finding great financial success by insuring physicians, Finley sought to buy a baseball franchise and found a failing one in Kansas City, where all his vagaries, innovations, insecurities, weaknesses, strengths and irascibility exploded like post-game fireworks into the Kansas sky. He hired, harassed, fired and even traded managers with stunning suddenness, befriended then alienated players, fought with the press, experimented with myriad marketing promotions and began lobbying for changes in the sport, including the designated hitter, night World Series games and interleague play. Thinking Oakland would be a lucrative baseball market, he moved his team there in 1968. He was wrong. Even in their championship seasons, the A's could not draw a million fans. Finley's fall ensued, caused by a complicated and ruinous divorce, losing battles with emerging free agency, mutual animosity with commissioner Bowie Kuhn, mismanagement and a kind of regal recklessness. Most readers will agree with the authors' final assessment that Finley was an innovative, infuriating jackass whose braying was sometimes sensible, even wise., Walker & Company, 2010, 3<