A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team - Hardcover

In writing A YANKEE CENTURY, it was in a way like competing with myself. I had written the highly successful A YANKEE ENCYCLOPEDIA as well as NEW YORK CITY BASEBALL, had written for YANKEES MAGAZINE for almost two decades and followed the team for more decades that I can remember. So in writing A YANKEE CENTURY - - all of this history came into play. I fashioned a book that is history, trivia, dates, profiles, oddities - a book that I believe will appeal to all Yankee fans and baseball fans - there is something to learn and enjoy on each page. I learned a lot in doing the book and I knew a lot before I started.

With its mix of archival photos, charts, lists, stats - as well as more than 100,000 words written by me - -and me alone -this is a book I am very proud of.

Harvey Frommer is the author of more than 30 sports books. Together with his wife, Myrna Katz Frommer, he authored the critically acclaimed oral histories It Happened in Manhattan, It Happened in Brooklyn, It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened on Broadway, and Growing Up Jewish in America. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, and a longtime Yankee fan.