The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees (1572437154) - Reviews and Prices
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The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees (1572437154) - Reviews and Prices
Relief Pitcher Sparky Lyle was the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner for his role in helping the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship since 1962. The following winter, the Yankees - who changed the face of baseball in those early years of free agency - went out and aquired Pittsburgh closer Goose Gossage, relegating Lyle to an observer's role for the 1978 season. As it turned out, Lyle proved to be a more astute observer than anyone could have predicted. And, as luck would have it, the Yankee's 1978 season turned out to be as sensational, controversial, and colorful a season as there have ever been - a real zoo, in fact. The Bronx Zoo is Lyle's best-selling, highly acclaimed collaboration with author Peter Golenbock that, when originially released in 1979, was favorably compared to Jim Bouton's groundbreaking Ball Four as a hillarious - but scathing - baseball tell-all. Lyle had an insider's view like no other in a season for the ages, and the 1978 Yankees remain the biggest sideshow the game of baseball has ever seen.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Second Read of Bronx Zoo:
I read this book years ago, after reading Jim Bouton's Ball Four, but did not have a good recollection of the book. Now I know why. Although there are some entertaining parts in general the book is only average as a written work and the content, as one reviewer noted, is first person whiny. Sparky Lyle should have stuck to pitching and focused more on being a competitor. The book is filled with contradictions as he relates hsi values as an athelete. Save your money.
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Sparky Lyle's diary of the 1978 season, while pitching for the World Champion New York Yankees was an interesting tale, but far less compelling than the guy who may have inspired his idea; Jim Bouton, who wrote the original iconoclastic baseball memoir, Ball Four, during the 1969 season. Clearly, the Yankees were the big story in baseball in 1978; the tumultuous trio of George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson were constantly bickering, yet somehow managed to put everything together... more info
A year at the zoo:
Inside the cold and damp of every April lie the seeds for a truly mythic baseball season, and though every year will have its worshippers, I think that undoubtedly the decade of the 70's saw some of the most dramatic, thrilling, and iconic games of all time. 1975 - Carlton Fisk's home run in the sixth game of the World Series to force a seventh game against the Reds; 1977 - Reggie Jackson's three home runs in one game to sink the Dodgers; 1978 - The one game playoff between the Boston Red Sox and the Yanks... more info
The Season to Remember:
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