 Posted: Sunday January 25, 2009 5:00PM; Updated: Monday January
26, 2009 1:27PM  SI's Verducci: New book about Yankees, not just
Joe Torre  Story Highlights  Two New York papers say Joe Torre
rips Alex Rodriguez and George Steinbrenner  Co-author Tom
Verducci says the newspaper claims distort the book's context
Verducci says the book is about the Yankees, not a first-person
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font 'The Yankee Years' will be published by Doubleday on Feb.
3. Courtesy of Random House spoke with Sports Illustrated senior
writer Tom Verducci on Sunday about his soon-to-be released new
book, co-authored with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre,
called The Yankee Years. The book is published by Doubleday and
will be released on Feb. 3. Two New York newspapers are
reporting that Joe Torre rips Alex Rodriguez and George
Steinbrenner in the book, and that Brian Cashman was not as
supportive of Torre returning as Yankees manager after the 2007
season as was previously be