What year was the co-author (with Tom Verducci) of The Yankee Years born?
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The Yankee Years The Yankee Years is a book written by Tom Verducci and Joe Torre. The book chronicles Torre's years as manager of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007. It goes into great detail on Torre's relationship with the players, general manager Brian Cashman, team owner George Steinbrenner, and the Yankees organization as a whole. Also discussed are major developments in the way baseball management throughout the years changed from a batting average focused market to the in-depth statistical-based approach centered on base-percentage, as well as covering issues such as the "Steroids Era".
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Joe Torre Joseph Paul Torre ( ; born July 18, 1940) is an American professional baseball executive, serving in the capacity of Major League Baseball's (MLB) chief baseball officer since 2011. A former player, manager and television color commentator, Torre ranks fifth all-time in MLB history with 2,326 wins as a manager. With 2,342 hits during his playing career, Torre is the only major leaguer to achieve both 2,000 hits and 2,000 wins as a manager. From 1996 to 2007, he was the manager of the New York Yankees, whom he guided to four World Series championships.
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Tom Verducci Tom Verducci (born December 2, 1960) is an American sportswriter who writes for "Sports Illustrated" and its online magazine SI.com. He writes primarily about baseball. He is also a field reporter for the MLB postseason on TBS. In addition, he appears on "Hot Stove" and "MLB Tonight" on MLB Network as a baseball insider.
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Jeffrey J. Miller Jeffrey J. Miller (born 1961) is an American author and historian, best known for his work focusing on the history of professional football. His books include "Pop Warner: A Life on the Gridiron", "100 Things Bills Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die", "Game Changers: The Greatest Plays in Buffalo Bills Football History" (co-written with Hall-of-Fame coach Marv Levy), "Rockin' the Rockpile: The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League,""Buffalo's Forgotten Champions: The Story of Buffalo's First Professional Football Team and the Lost 1921 Title," and "The Icemen Cameth: The History of the Natural Ice Industry at Lime Lake, New York, 1880–1925". He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association, and was the 2004 recipient of the PFRA's Ralph E. Hay Award, presented for "Lifetime achievement in professional football research and historiography." He lives in Western New York with his wife and son.
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Russell Baker Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "Growing Up" (1982). He was a columnist for "The New York Times" from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre" from 1992 to 2004. The ""Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994" states:
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A Connecticut Yankee (musical) A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by American writer Mark Twain. Like most adaptations of the Twain novel, it focuses on the lighter aspects of the story. The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields and Lyle D. Andrews. It enjoyed an original run on Broadway in 1927 of 421 performances and a number of revivals.
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John Patric John Patric (May 22, 1902 – August 31, 1985) was an American writer. He was a contributing writer for "National Geographic" during the mid to late 1930s and early 1940s and was the author of two books. He was known for his 1943 book "Yankee Hobo in the Orient", of which over twelve million copies were sold domestically and internationally in both hardcover and digest format. In the 1940s, he was one of the best-known Oregon writers.
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Sammy Vick Samuel Bruce Vick (April 12, 1895 – August 17, 1986) was an American professional right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Yankees from 1917 to 1920, and the Boston Red Sox in 1921. He stood 5 ft , and weighed 163 lb., and he batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Batesville, Mississippi, and attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Tiny Bonham Ernest Edward "Tiny" Bonham (August 16, 1913 – September 15, 1949) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1940 to 1949, he played for the New York Yankees (1940–46) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1947–49). Bonham, who batted and threw right-handed, won 21 games for the Yankees in 1942. He was born in Ione, California, and nicknamed "Tiny" because he was an imposing 6 ft tall and 215 lb .
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Phil Pepe Philip Francis Pepe (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.
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Mel Stottlemyre Melvin Leon "Mel" Stottlemyre Sr. (born November 13, 1941) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach. He played for 11 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, and coached for 23 seasons. He is a five-time MLB All-Star and five-time World Series champion, as a coach.
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Dan Manucci Daniel Joseph Manucci (born September 3, 1957) is a former American football quarterback and sports radio personality.
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Tom Timmermann Thomas Henry Timmermann (born May 12, 1940) is a former American baseball player. He played professional baseball for 15 years from 1960 to 1974, including six seasons in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1969–1973) and Cleveland Indians (1973–1974). He compiled a 35–35 win–loss record and a 3.78 earned run average (ERA), and recorded 35 saves and 315 strikeouts, in 228 major league games and 548 innings pitched.
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Edwin G. Burrows Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (born May 15, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "" (1998), and author of "Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War," (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
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Charles Clegg Charles Myron Clegg, Jr. (June 29, 1916 – August 25, 1979) was an American author, photographer, and railroad historian. Clegg is primarily remembered as the lifelong companion of famed railroad author Lucius Beebe, and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books.
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Herb Pennock Herbert Jefferis Pennock (February 10, 1894 – January 30, 1948) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1912 through 1933. He is best known for his time spent with the star-studded New York Yankee teams of the mid to late 1920s and early 1930s.
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Ron Powers Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include "White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal", "Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain", and "Mark Twain: A Life". With James Bradley, he co-wrote the 2000 #1 New York Times Bestseller "Flags of Our Fathers". The book won the Colby Award the following year.
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John Thorn John Thorn (born April 17, 1947) is a sports historian, author, publisher, and cultural commentator. Since March 1, 2011, he has been the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball.
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Ron Perranoski Ronald Peter Perranoski (born April 1, 1936) is a former left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher, having played from 1961 through 1973 .
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Billy Martin Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times. As Yankees manager, he led the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977 ; the Yankees were swept in the 1976 World Series by the Cincinnati Reds but triumphed over the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games in the 1977 World Series. He also had notable managerial tenures with several other AL squads, leading four of them to division championships.
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C. B. Colby Carroll Burleigh Colby (September 7, 1904 – October 31, 1977) was a prolific American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books. He wrote approximately 93 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States. He is best known for "Strangely Enough!" (1959).
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Bobby Veach Robert Hayes "Bobby" Veach (June 29, 1888 – August 7, 1945) was an American baseball player from 1910 to 1930, including 14 seasons in the major leagues. He was the starting left fielder for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1923 and also played for the Boston Red Sox (1924–1925), New York Yankees (1925) and Washington Senators (1925).