Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999

by Lyle Spatz

Book Overview

Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees. The author sets both the players and the deal in historical perspective, explaining why the Yanks and the other club involved made the deal, what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078644083X
• ISBN13: 9780786440832
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher