The New York Yankees; An Illustrated History

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1987. First Revised Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. viii, 344 pages. Illustrations. Table of Statistics. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. This is a heavy item and if shipped outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. The contents include Prologue; A Slow Beginning (1903-1919); Mr. Ruth Comes to Town (1920-1929); Gehrig and Two Guys Named Joe (1930-1939); From Pearl Harbor to Casey Stengel (1940-1949); Mickey Mantle and the Greatest Decade (1950-1959); From Mount Olympus to Down in the Valley (1960-1969); Resurrection: George, Billy, and Reggie (1970-1979); and The Fires of Controversy (1980-1986). Donald Martin Honig (born 1931 in New York City) is a novelist, historian and editor who mostly writes about baseball. While a member of the Bobo Newsom Memorial Society, an informal group of writers, Honig attempted to convince Lawrence Ritter to write a sequel to his 1966 book The Glory of their Times. Pleading time limitations, Ritter declined to attempt such a book himself, but gave Honig his blessing, leading to the books Baseball When the Grass Was Real (1975) and Baseball Between The Lines (1976). Over the next 19 years, Honing produced 39 books about baseball. He collaborated with Ritter on The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time in 1981. He also published several illustrated histories of long-standing franchises. Honig published his most recent baseball book, The Fifth Season, in 2009. Honig was also a frequent contributor of short stories to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City alongside the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. The team was founded in 1903 when Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise rights to the defunct Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current team of the same name) after it ceased operations and used them to establish the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913. The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a limited liability company that is controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner purchased the team from CBS in 1973. The team's home games were played at the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. In 2009, they moved into a new ballpark of the same name that was constructed adjacent to the previous facility, which was closed and demolished. The team is perennially among the leaders in MLB attendance. One of the most successful professional sports clubs in the United States, the Yankees have won 20 American League East Division titles, 40 American League pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB records. The team has won more titles than any other franchise in the four major North American sports leagues, after briefly trailing the NHL's Montreal Canadiens between 1993 and 1999. The Yankees have had 44 players and 11 managers inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including many of the sport's most iconic figures in history such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, and Goose Gossage; more recent inductees include Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, who received the two highest vote percentages of all Hall of Fame members.