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Memories & Dreams: From the Chicago Perspective

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Marty Appel

By Marty Appel The Chicago Cubs, buoyed by a heritage that had the poem “Tinker to Evers to Chance” in the minds of fans everywhere, had seen the Frank Chance era end in 1912, followed by a stretch of mostly… Continue Reading →

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What does a guy have to do in front of Yankees fans to get a little respect? Hit .325 lifetime?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Marty Appel

Earle Combs went back to the second year of Yankee Stadium, 1924, and had a stellar career there when the vastness of the real estate was much greater than it came to be under DiMaggio. Earle Combs, the first Yankee… Continue Reading →

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Phil Pepe: The original “Chipmunk”

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Marty Appel

The death in December 2015 of New York–based sportswriter Phil Pepe saddened the city’s baseball community, including his devoted readers, who enjoyed his many years with the New York Daily News and his output of more than four dozen books. Some… Continue Reading →

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Paul Schreiber: 22 years between appearances in a Major League box score

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Marty Appel

When one-time relief-ace Andrew Bailey took the mound for the New York Yankees this past summer, much was made of it being his first Major League appearance in two years. Well, Paul Schreiber went 22 years between appearances in a Major… Continue Reading →

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Read Marty Appel’s Foreword in Strangers in the Bronx by Andrew O’Toole

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Marty Appel

Strangers in the Bronx DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard By Andrew O’Toole, Foreword by Marty Appel  MY FAVORITE STORY FROM 1951 INVOLVES THE “BOBBY THOMSON” game and one Yogi Berra. The ’51 season featured a terrific American League pennant race,… Continue Reading →

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National Pastime Museum : My First Game: Ebbets Field 1955

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Marty Appel

I think most people take their children to their first game at too young an age. I know I did. I took my son to his first game when he wasn’t even three. He loved the ice cream, and when… Continue Reading →

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Memories & Dreams : Waner, Heilmann & Medwick

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Marty Appel

Paul Waner When Paul Waner got his 3,000th hit in 1942, he was the only player between Eddie Collins (1925) and Stan Musial (1958) to achieve that feat. It was a span of 33 years, and no one but Waner… Continue Reading →

Byline Marty Appel Harry Heilmann, Joe Medwick, Paul Waner

Just added: Mel Ott & His Enduring Home Run Record

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Marty Appel

Mel Ott & His Enduring Home Run Record The tragic death of St. Louis Cardinals rookie Oscar Taveras during the World Series, victim of an auto accident in the Dominican Republic, brings to mind another ballplayer who died a similar… Continue Reading →

Byline Marty Appel Mel Ott

Read all about it! The Boston Globe : Derek Jeter’s farewell in Boston evokes memories of Mickey Mantle

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Marty Appel

The Boston Globe, September 28, 2014 Derek Jeter’s farewell in Boston evokes memories of Mickey Mantle The coincidences are too startling to overlook. So are the differences. Derek Jeter, the face of the Yankees — and maybe the face of… Continue Reading →

Byline Marty Appel Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle

New from The National Pastime Museum: Red Ruffing

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Marty Appel

  On Saturday afternoon, August 5, 1939, Red Ruffing went out and did what he usually did when he started a game for the New York Yankees. Pitching off the very flat mound of Yankee Stadium, Ruffing hurled a complete… Continue Reading →

Byline Marty Appel Red Ruffing

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Pinstripe Empire by Marty Appel
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Now Updated Through the 2020 Season

An exciting history of the world's greatest baseball team from a former Yankees Public Relations Officer.

"A riveting and comprehensive history of the Yankees" – New York Times

Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Ford, Mantle, Jackson, Mattingly? Of Torre, Jeter, and Rivera? Of forty American League pennants, twenty-seven World Championships, and nearly forty Hall of Famers?

Like so many great American institutions, the Yankees began humbly, on the muddy, uneven grass of Hilltop Park. Eighteen years later the little second-class franchise won its first pennant. Today, the Yankees are worth more than a billion dollars.

It's been nearly seventy years since Frank Graham wrote the last narrative history of the Yankees. Marty Appel, the Yankees' PR director during the 1970s, now illuminates the team in its hundred-plus years of glory: clever, maneuvering owners; rowdy, talented players; great stories behind the great stories. Appel heard tales from old-timers like Waite Hoyt, Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, and Whitey Ford, and has remained close to the organization ever since. He gives life to the team's history, from the demise of Hilltop Park in the 1900s to the evolution of today's team as an international brand. With a wealth of photographs, this is a treasure trove for lovers of sports, the Yankees, New York history, and America's game.

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