The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium’s center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs and was often tortured by leg ailments, became the number one box office draw in baseball. He was the American League’s most valuable player in 1956 and 1957, putting together a triple crown season in 1956. Mantle came into baseball when television was just catching on, and with the Yankees reaching the World Series and appearing on national TV seemingly every season, he became the face of the game during the decade. Mantle joined with his pals, pitcher Whitey Ford and infielder Billy Martin, to form a hard-partying trio that would be a joy and a pain to management. The author of several books on the Yankees, David Fischer brings expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the saga of the most dominant decade in the annals of sport, set during a defining moment in U.S. history
- Author: David Fisher
- Paperback: 312 pages
- Published: March, 2021
- Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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The days when the Yankees ruled all of baseball
Jul 26th 2024This book is a must for all Yankees fans. There was a time when the Yankees were the talk of the baseball world. It was time when they would be in the World Series or winning it. The Yankees were the team of the 1950's and they faced teams like there was no tomorrow. Casey Stengel had some very great players on those teams back then. Five of them are enshrined in Cooperstown. There was a time when television was the new thing to watch the Yankees on and Dwight D. Eisenhower was our President as well as Elvis become the newest musical sensation. Those were the days when the Yankees just dominated all of baseball except for 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1959. It is a good book to get and I will definitely buy it for a certain Yankee fan who would enjoy this book.
The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium’s center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs and was often tortured by leg ailments, became the number one box office draw in baseball. He was the American League’s most valuable player in 1956 and 1957, putting together a triple crown season in 1956. Mantle came into baseball when television was just catching on, and with the Yankees reaching the World Series and appearing on national TV seemingly every season, he became the face of the game during the decade. Mantle joined with his pals, pitcher Whitey Ford and infielder Billy Martin, to form a hard-partying trio that would be a joy and a pain to management. The author of several books on the Yankees, David Fischer brings expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the saga of the most dominant decade in the annals of sport, set during a defining moment in U.S. history
- Author: David Fisher
- Paperback: 312 pages
- Published: March, 2021
- Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
-
The days when the Yankees ruled all of baseball
Jul 26th 2024This book is a must for all Yankees fans. There was a time when the Yankees were the talk of the baseball world. It was time when they would be in the World Series or winning it. The Yankees were the team of the 1950's and they faced teams like there was no tomorrow. Casey Stengel had some very great players on those teams back then. Five of them are enshrined in Cooperstown. There was a time when television was the new thing to watch the Yankees on and Dwight D. Eisenhower was our President as well as Elvis become the newest musical sensation. Those were the days when the Yankees just dominated all of baseball except for 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1959. It is a good book to get and I will definitely buy it for a certain Yankee fan who would enjoy this book.
