9781566634113 - A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939 von Tofel, Richard J. (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 269 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. The author recreates the 1939 season of the New York Yankees, a team that can make a strong claim to be the greatest in baseball history. 1939 itself was a pivotal season the Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown that summer; a major league game was televised for the first time; night baseball came to the American League. And for the Yankees they won their fourth consecutive World Series and Joe DiMaggio had possibly his finest season. The year was not without sadness as in May Lou Gehrig took himself out of the lineup after 2130 consecutive games.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xi, [1], 269, [7] pages. Appendix: The 1939 New York Yankees. Sources. Notes. Index. DJ front flap has crease. Tofel earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. He is the author of three books: A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939, Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind, and Sounding the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address. He is a member of the advisory board of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Richard Tofel is the president of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization in New York City. Derived from a Publishers Weekly review: It was in 1939 that the Yankees won their fourth straight World Series and eighth overall, cementing their position as the winningest team in baseball history. But 1939 was the year that Lou Gehrig's consecutive game-playing streak came to an end; as the star was diagnosed with ALS now known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Tofel follows the '39 season month by month, charting the hot streaks and slumps of individual players and the team, while also interweaving new developments regarding Gehrig. Tofel does a splendid job of capturing the different personalities of the '39 Yankees, a team that included such legendary players as a young Joe DiMaggio and catcher Bill Dickey and was coached by Joe McCarthy; all would be elected to the Hall of Fame. Yankee fans and baseball historians will enjoy this tale of one year in the building of the Yankee dynasty.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.