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Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (By Roy White with Paul R. Semendinger, Foreword by Marty Appel) more<\/a><\/p>\n

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My 1961<\/strong> (By Andy Strasberg, Foreward by Marty Appel)<\/p>\n

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Thurm: Memoirs of a Forever Yankee<\/strong><\/a> Paperback \u2013 March 7, 2023 (By Thurman Munson, Marty Appel)<\/p>\n

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The New York Yankees Home Run Almanac: The Bronx Bombers’ Most Historic, Unusual, and Titanic Dingers<\/a><\/strong>(by Douglas B. Lyons, Foreword by Marty Appel)<\/p>\n

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Gotham Baseball: New York\u2019s All-Time Team <\/strong><\/a>(by Mark C. Healey Foreword by Marty Appel) April 6, 2020 more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Foreword to The Call to the Hall: When Baseball’s Highest Honor Came to 31 Legends of the Sport<\/em><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(by Kevin Warneke,\u200e David C. Ogden,\u200e Foreword by Marty Appel) January 2018<\/p>\n

If there was a Hall of Fame for Declaration of Independence signers (and I don’t think there was), I suppose they would have been informed of their election by the arrival of a courier on horseback delivering the big news. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Strangers<\/strong><\/a>Strangers in the Bronx DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard<\/em><\/strong> By Andrew O’Toole, Foreword by Marty Appel<\/a><\/p>\n

MY FAVORITE STORY FROM 1951 INVOLVES THE “BOBBY THOMSON” game and one Yogi Berra. The ’51 season featured <\/span>a terrific American League pennant race, and a similarly terrific one in the National League, where those other two New York teams-the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants-needed a three-game playoff to decide a champion. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Foreword to 2015 edition of Who\u2019s Who in Baseball<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nIn the days when fans were called \u201ccranks\u201d and ballparks were wooden, there was a growing number of baseball fans who appreciated the game for its statistics. Statistics provided a measuring device for \u201cwho was good and who was bad\u201d and a sense of order off the field for the well-organized game on the field. The box score was as perfect as the distance between the bases. An extension of the box score into season and career columns of numbers was waiting to be embraced. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"100yrsWhosWhoBB\"100 Years of Who’s Who in Baseball
\n<\/a><\/strong>Before baseball became a year round, non-stop 24\/7 bombardment of news, with the winter months filled with rumors, free agent signings, trades, blogs, tweets, press conferences, MLB Network, ESPN, and Tommy John surgeries \u2013 we could pause after the World Series, catch our breaths, and gently count the days until spring training.<\/p>\n

In the really old days, people were said to sit around a \u201chot stove\u201d and talk baseball, and the talk was often things like \u201cwho\u2019s better \u2013 Ruth or Cobb?!\u201d more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nShortly after George Steinbrenner\u2019s death in 2010, talk began to sweep across social media about his worthiness for inclusion in the Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

As one who worked for him for many years, I found myself on the receiving end of that question many times.  <\/span>And I would answer, \u201cMr. Steinbrenner often said that owning the New York Yankees was like owning the Mona Lisa.  <\/span>If that was true, then Jacob Ruppert was Leonardo da Vinci \u2013 the man who painted it.” <\/span> more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"bridging2dynasties\"Introduction to Bridging Two Dynasties: The 1947 New York Yankees
\n<\/a><\/strong>The 1947 Yankees always seemed to stand “alone” to me among the litany of champion Yankee clubs\u2014neither a Joe McCarthy team, nor a Casey Stengel team, carrying over some wartime players and introducing some guys that, frankly, didn’t feel like Yankees.<\/p>\n

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\"07-fantog239\"Baseball Fantography: A Celebration in Snapshots and Stories<\/a><\/strong>
\nEver increasing forms of social media and continue to expand the ways in which we can root, root, root for the home team, but one thing still connects all generations of baseball fans \u2013 still photography. Is there anything more unique to a modern historic baseball moment than the sight of 40,000 digital cameras flashing at once?<\/p>\n

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\"06-gotem\"Got ‘Em, Got ‘Em, Need ‘Em: A Fan’s Guide to Collecting the Top 100 Sports Cards of All Time<\/a>
\n<\/strong>When I worked in the trading card industry in the \u201890s, the \u201chot term\u201d during those collecting madness days was \u201cchase card.\u201d It was a marketing term to indicate the special cards, like a Michael Jordan gold plated, glossy chrome, limited edition, signed, with relic, alternate version, that people would chase to the ends of the earth knowing it would make them rich beyond their dreams. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"04-greatnessinwaiting\"Greatness in Waiting<\/a>
\n<\/strong>The road towards a new Yankee Stadium actually began with bat days in the early 1970s. The sell-out promotion, beloved by fans and a favorite of newspaper photographers, brought will it a ritual by which young fans with tap their bats in unison against the concrete beneath their feet, hoping to stir a Yankee rally.<\/p>\n

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NY Yankees Collectibles NY Yankees Collectibles: A Price Guide to Memorabilia for America’s Favorite Team (Beckett)<\/strong>
\n<\/a>In 1973, when the original Yankee Stadium was being prepared for partial demolition as part of a $100 million refurbishing, I was a member of the team\u2019s public relations department. And I had my eye on a quaint yet sturdy piece of the team\u2019s heritage. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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N.Y. Yankees Collectibles<\/a><\/em>\/Beckett<\/a> <\/strong>Yankee Memorabilia
\n<\/strong>With the two world championship trophies earned by the New York Yankees in the last three years, the nation has been reminded again that for better or worse, love them or hate them, this truly has been America\u2019s Team, the national franchise. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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New York Yankee Collectibles<\/em>\/Beckett<\/a>
\n<\/strong>It begins, of course, with the \u201cVoice of God,\u201d the voice of Bob Sheppard, who has handled the public address assignment at Yankee Stadium since bleacher seats were 50 cents, since Mickey Mantle wore his rookie number 6, and since Casey Stengel wore a long sleeve manager\u2019s uniform as Joe McCarthy had. The Yankee top hat logo was four years old; the Yankees Yearbook, two, and the number 4 elevated train was passing behind the bleachers, over Joe DiMaggio\u2019s shoulders. more<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"03-TN-DesignatedRon Blomberg Autobiography<\/a>
\n<\/strong>First off, after all these years, what\u2019s with the \u201cbloom-berg\u201d pronunciation? If it\u2019s \u201cBLOOOM-berg,\u201d how come his first name isn\u2019t pronounced \u201cRoon?\u201d more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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