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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty New Edition: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (0061672874) - Reviews and Prices
For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the controls, the Yankees money machine spun out of control.
In this new edition of The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, updating his insightful portrait with a new introduction that walks readers through Steinbrenner's departure from power, Joe Torre's departure from the team, the continued failure of the Yankees to succeed in the postseason, and the rise of Hank Steinbrenner. With an insider's familiarity with the game, Olney reveals what may have been an inevitable fall that last night of the Yankee dynasty, and its powerful aftermath.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Looking forward to the sequel:
Buster Olney should be fired for this. Seriously. This guy wrote the obit for a team that wasn't dead. How about the sequel about how the red sox will never win again for like 86 more years
Amazing book....:
This is an amazing book. A must read for any Yankee fan or baseball fan. Buster Olney's writing style is very tangential... but by the end of the book, he tells the whole story and gives you an amazing plethora of content about the Yankees during their dynasty. The minute i finished it, i wanted to go back to page 1 and immediately start reading it over again from scratch. its like that movie you want to watch over and over. He tells the back story behind all the yankee players, the... more info
A good tale, well told:
The Yankees from 1996-2001 are arguably the only baseball team since the introduction of the free agent system that can be called a dynasty. Their achievements during that time - multiple World Series, two perfect games, one of the winningest records in all of baseball - make some argue that this was the greatest Yankee team of all time, surpassing the great teams of Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio. But what made the team what it was? In "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty," sportswriter Buster Olney... more info
The Cost of Hubris:
This book is a worthy companion to David Halberstam's excellent "October 1964", another book about the decline of another Yankee dynasty. As a Yankee fan, we celebrate the tradition and history of the Yankees, but often bristle at the hubris by which some in the organization think they can create champions by spending money on the wrong players. As Mr. Olney correctly points out near the end of his book (indeed as a theme throughout), it was the unique team chemsitry and not the salaries that made the... more info
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