Donnelly Chris Donnelly

Baseball's Greatest Series (eBook, PDF)

Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Baseball's Greatest Series details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. This division series was not simply about two teams playing five postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberryuand many others who changed the course of baseball history . . .A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific NorthwestA manager who was literally managing for his jobA New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlierChris Donnelly's replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle's Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem.From Don Mattingly's only postseason home run, which caused a near riot, to Edgar Martinez's legendary eleventh inning series-clinching double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle's victory. Simply stated, Baseball's Greatest Series hits a home run.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813549132
• Artikelnr.: 72465882

Autorenporträt

Chris Donnelly, a lifelong baseball fan, is a graduate of the College of New Jersey. He resides in Mercer County, New Jersey, with his wife, Jamie.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Don-nie Base-ball
2. Winless in Seattle
3. Bronx Bummers
4. Strike
5. Baseball Returns
6. Game 1: The Bronx, Baseball, and Beer Bottles
7. Game 2: A Classic in the Bronx
8. Game 3: Playoff Baseball in Seattle
9. Game 4: Saint Edgar
10. Game 5: Warriors, Heroes, and Heartbreak
11. Deconstructing the Yankees
12. Safeco is Born
Epilogue
Notes
Index