I'd Rather Be a Yankee: An Oral History of America's Most Loved and Most Hated Baseball Team

by John Tullius

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002620410X
• ISBN13: 9780026204101
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For all Yankee lovers...

John Tullius' "I'd Rather Be a Yankee" follows in the footsteps of Donald Honig's "Baseball When the Grass was Real" and Lawrence Ritter's "The Glory of Their Times" by letting the players "write" the book through the reporting of their great stories and reminiscences. Tullius combines his research with previous works to provide the reader with some great insight about these terrific Yankee teams and players. All the Yankee greats from the first 3/4th's of the 20th Century are featured in this fast-paced and intriquing book. Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio, Berra, Stengel, Mantle and Jackson are all prominently featured. And while, "I'd Rather Be a Yankee" probably won't "play" in Beantown, it will be warmly embraced in the Big Apple and by all Yankee fans.

Let Them Tell The Story

I've loved this book since I was a child. As far as Yankee history goes, it gives us the skeletal framework of the story, dispersed through the book at the beginnings of each chapter. However, the real reason this book is such a gem, is that the majority of it is told through the quotes of the people who lived through the events they describe. Some of these quotes are taken from previously published material, and therein are gathered some of Yankee Baseball's most memorable and bone chilling quips and one-liners. But in addition to those are stories told to the author himself, as he travelled the country, seeking to preserve the tales these men were burning to tell. Simply wonderful.