Almost Yankees: The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You've Never Heard of

by J. David Herman

Book Overview

Almost Yankees is a poignant and nostalgic narrative of the lives and travails of Minor League Baseball, focusing on the 1981 championship season of the New York Yankees' Triple-A farm club, the Columbus Clippers. That year was especially notable in the annals of baseball history as the year Major League Baseball went on strike in midseason. When that happened, the Clippers were suddenly the best team in baseball and found themselves the focus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496208897
• ISBN13: 9781496208897
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.1" x 9.3"