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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. Ed Murawinski (illustratore). Book Club Edition. [10], 292, [2] pages. Illustrations with photographs and with cartoons by Ed Murawinski. Appendix. Index. Some soiling and creasing to DJ. Bill Madden (born 1946) is an American sportswriter formerly with the New York Daily News. A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, he has served on the Historical Overview Committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, 2007 and 2008, helping to select candidates for the final ballots presented to the Veterans Committee. Madden grew up in Oradell, New Jersey,[1] and graduated from Bergen Catholic High School. He was a sportswriter with UPI for nine years before he joined the Daily News in 1978, and covered the New York Yankees before becoming a columnist in 1989. In 2015 Madden was unceremoniously dismissed as part of a massive series of staff layoffs by owner Mort Zuckerman. He has written the books Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With "Boss" Steinbrenner (1991, with Moss Klein), Zim - A Baseball Life (2001, with Don Zimmer), Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee (2003), and Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball's Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies (2004) and Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball (2010). George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930 - July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the Yankees earned seven World Series titles and 11 pennants. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries made him one of the sport's most controversial figures. Steinbrenner was also involved in the Great Lakes and Gulf Coast shipping industry. Known as a hands-on baseball executive, Steinbrenner earned the nickname "The Boss". He had a tendency to meddle in daily on-field decisions, and to hire and fire (and sometimes re-hire) managers. Former Yankees manager Dallas Green gave him the derisive nickname "Manager George". He died after suffering a heart attack in his Tampa home on the morning of July 13, 2010, the day of the 81st All-Star Game. George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees team in 1973, rebuilt it into a World Series champion, and then plunged it into a state of constant turmoil that hopelessly destroyed its quest for sustained success. New York Daily News reporter Madden and Klein, of the Newark Star-Ledger , who have covered the Yankees for years, here join forces on a history that may send fans to their handkerchiefs and opponents into laughter. The authors chiefly discuss the period 1977 to 1989, when principal team owner George Steinbrenner converted a stable, conservative, successful franchise into a club characterized by ``chaos, confusion, and craziness'' to the point that some top players refuse to sign with the team. Control of the Yankees, argue Madden and Klein, has been ruled by the whims of a tyrant; as a result, the era they survey has seen 18 managers, 11 presidents, 10 PR agents and innumerable here-today, gone-tomorrow players.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Steinbrenner, George M. New York Yankees (Baseball team) --History. Baseball team owners --United States --Biography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Steinbrenner, George M. New York Yankees (Baseball team) --History. Baseball team owners --United States --Biography. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Murawinski, Ed (illustratore). First Edition. Very slight shelf rubbing to the jacket, little to no wear. Quite clean. 'The firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of how chaos, confusion, and craziness pervaded the once proud and mighty New York Yankee franchise and doomed it to a decade of decay.' 292 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Steinbrenner, George M. New York Yankees (Baseball team) --History. Baseball team owners --United States --Biography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Steinbrenner, George M. New York Yankees (Baseball team) --History. Baseball team owners --United States --Biography. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Dewey, Amanda (book design); Snider, Steve (jacket design); Murawinski, Ed (jacket illustration) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition textured red boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Gene Shalit; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux; Bibliography; and Can't Do It Alone. "Step right up, folks: The best is yet to come (inside): "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception". - Groucho Marx. "Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time." - Dirk Bogarde to Julie Christie in Darling. "If people don't wnat to go to a picture, nobody can stop them." - Samuel Goldwyn, producer. "I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen. "I saw losing my virginity as a career move." - Madonna. "Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got." - Sophia Loren. "I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?" - Elizabeth Taylor. "Last night she was banging on my door for forty-five minutes - but I wouldn't let her out." - Dean Martin. - from the rear outer jacket. "Great Hollywod Wit rollicks with hilarious movie lines and backstage zingers - smart, tart, and (in Sir John Gielgud's case) wicked: "Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them." Julia Roberts, fashion buff: "I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping." Retiring Burt Reynolds: "You can only hold you stomach in for so many years." Great Hollywood Wit is an unequaled cavalcade of hilarity and wonderful one-of-a-kind gift." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Murawinski, Ed (cartoon illustrations); Tannenbaum, Robert (jacket illustator); Stromberg, Mike (jakcet design) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine condition white boards, blue cloth spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Appendix and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates plus cartoon drawings interspersed throughout the volume. "So you want to be a baseball writer covering the Yankees? Well, this terrific book tells what it's like - for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, for as long as George Steinbrenner remains the principal owner." - Dave Anderson, New York Times sportswriter. "No other book that has been written about the Yankees brings you under the circus tent the way this one does. Madden and Klein tell it like it was - and is." - Reggie Jackson. "This is the book George Steinbrenner is going to hate - and baseball fans are sure to love. This is Damned Yankees - the explosively revealing, mercilessly hilarious dissection of "the Bronx Bombers" by two of the most experienced and insightful reporters in the game. Damned Yankees is the firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of how chaos, confusion, and craziness pervaded the once proud and mighty New York Yankee franchise and doomed it to a decade of decay. The man to thank is a man of action and vision, a volatile and exacting shipbuilder from Tampa named George Steinbrenner. It was Steinbrenner who bought the team in 1973, rebult it into a World Series champion, and then plunged it into a state of constant turmoil that hopelessly destroyed its quest for sustained success. Damned Yankees abounds with tales of team mischief and mayhem. For the first time anywhere, you'll see the real reasons why, despite their falling fortunes in the standings, this ever-battling and babbling, colorful cast of characters never ceased being a top-selling attraction. And you'll witness these and other spectacles: Steinbrenner's fight in a hotel lobby with the Yankees' traveling secretary; Yogi Berra's profanity-laced tirade after the "Boss" had berated him and his coaches; Billy Martin's characteristic drunken stupor during the winter meetings.and the time he could be heard scratching at the door as reporters were briefed on trade talks within; One bad-luck pitcher's crippling hyperventilation when told he'd be starting in Yankee Stadium.and another's habitual wildness that resulted in a fan being hit by an errant pitch; The practical joke that had pitcher Joe Cowley believing he'd just had sex with a transvestite; The absurd-even laughable-lengths to which Steinbrenner went to conceal player injuries; Steinbrenner's self-aggrandizing publicity efforts, including a calculated attempt to exploit the "last call" he'd placed to Bart Giamatti shortly before the commissioner's death; The real story behind the "sinking ship' exodus of top team personnel at the close of the Steinbrenner Yankees' "worst-ever" 1989 season. Damned Yankees gives you the game as the reporters themselves live it - chronicling a unique team ever on the edge of hysteria, while they themselves barely avoid getting caught up in the madness that reigns in the magic kingdom ruled by the "Boss." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.