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    The Yankee Years
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    The Yankee Years

    Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

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    A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre's twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.

    Joe Torre is the most successful-and most respected-baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the country. Famously diplomatic during his tenure with the Yankees, Torre finally speaks out about what it was like building and managing the dynasty during those twelve glorious and tumultuous years. Written as a third-person narrative with Sports Illustrated Senior Baseball Writer Tom Verducci, THE YANKEE YEARS is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees organization from top to bottom.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 3, 2009
    ISBN9781415958957
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    The Yankee Years
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    Joe Torre

    Joe Torre is an investment counselor for a national real estate investing firm. He has almost 20 years' experience as a real estate investor and educator. Joe holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University Business School and formerly served as an officer in the US Marine Corps. He is not related to the former manager of the New York Yankees.

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    • 4/5
      This is so much more than the payback, tell-all book of the press reports. Sure, there's the revelation that Roger Clemens had trainers rub hot liniment on his testicles before heading out to pitch, and more, but there is also informed discussion of the character of the Yankees over time and how it changed, the bio-mechanics of pitching, and more. I am fascinated. most of all, this is a history and discussion of how change came to baseball, seen from Torre's perspective. The changes include sabermetrics, revenue-sharing and the advent of Bud Selig.
    • 4/5
      Liked this book. I read this as an avid sports lover and someone who enjoys watching baseball though as a Royals fan and too young to be part of a winning tradition I'm on the opposite spectrum of Yankee fans. I despise the Yankees but have to admire the joy Yankee fans get to experience year in and year out when their team not only makes the playoffs every year but has a legitamte shot at winning the World Series. I was hoping to get a little more dirt on some of the players, as well as the BOSS, but fell a little short in that regard. A lot of the time I was reading I found myself questioning how Torre remembered exactly what was said during a particular conversation, meeting, game, event etc. when these took place sometimes years ago. I know I'm a geek but when you use quotations and not only quote yourself but the toher person you had the conversation with I expect it to be word for word what you and/or that other person said but I know that couldn't possibly be the case unless there was a tape recorder involved. The biggest theme of the book for me was two things you knew prior to reading the book, as a Yankees fan or just a baseball fan; Derek Jeter is the good guy/hero and Alex Rodriguez is the villian and the guy you love to hate. It's pretty clear that's the way Torre sees it.
    • 4/5
      An above-average autobiography thanks to Verducci's editing. I enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      This is a wonderful book any Yankees, fan correct that baseball fan. It shows the changing of baseball after Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game was released. This book chronicles Torre's time in the Yankees through his 1995 start to his firing in 2007, it shows the Yankees step fall from a championship caliber team with wins in 96,98,99,and 2000 and the inefficient old veteran base timed through 2007. Though it is out of date because of the Yankees 27th World Championship, I felt it was unfair against the Yankee organization to some degree altogether skewing them as cynical. It highlighted the bad decisions on the Yankee's part spending large amounts of money on busts and aging veterans. Overall, I recommend this book, once you get into it, it shined Ton Verducci really put this story into word really well, although the beginning was slow, and it is somewhat out of date I advise you to take a look a this book, it's worth it.
    • 2/5
      I Couldn't get through this one. It seemed like David Cone had more authorship than Joe Torre. Maybe I've been spoiled by David Halberstam. I found myself slogging through it just to get at the gossip. That's when I stopped. I wasn't feeling the baseball atmosphere, if you know what I mean.
    • 4/5
      Not as interesting as hoped. The best segments focused on a season or portion thereof. Otherwise, it seemed to wander, especially in the discussion of steroids.
    • 5/5
      "The Yankees Years" was a great book. This book was very eye opening for me since I am a die hard Yankee fan. Joe Torre was the best thing to happen to the Yankees in a long time. he managed the Yanks from 1996-2007 and every year he managed the Yanks they went to the playoffs. It is a hard task to make it to the playoffs one year let alone do in for twelve straight years. and of those twelve years going to the playoffs, they made it to the World Series six times and winning it four times. Even though he did all these things at the beginning of his career as a Yankee he was under this enormous pressure. Joe actually wasn't the manager that the yankees wanted but since the rest of them went to other teams that is who they had to get. It seemed that nothing that he did actually took any of the pressure off. He seemed to be constantly stressed out and he couldn't get a lot of help when he needed it. George Steinbrenner, the Yankes owner, never seemed to help Joe when he asked it and when Joe didn't want the help George would walk in his office and tell him what he should do. Also Brian Cashman, the Yankees GM, wasn't a lot of help actually it seemed that Brian made thingd worse for George. This book shared with the reader the relationships that Joe had with all of his players, from the veterans to the rookies, with the state of New York, that was a Yankee fan, and with the members of the management of the Yankees. I loved this book for a few reasons. One was that I am a die hard Yankee fan. Two would be that Joe was the greatest manager ever. Another reason is that this book is a book that I actually know a lot about. I gave this book five stars out of five stars. I recommend this book for any sports fans who know a lot about baseball and for people who like Joe Torre and all that he has done to baseball.
    • 5/5
      Best book ever love it and will read it 900,000 more times.
    • 4/5
       The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci is full of facts and information about the New York Yankees MLB team.This book really catches you up on all of the history that the Yankees have been through.It tells you about the coaching strategies used by Joe Torre and his opinion on the illegal aspects of baseball and how his players are a big part of his success. This book is my favorite baseball book about the Yankees because its written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci who know the most about them from being around the team so much and taking to many world series and carrying on the New York Yankee dynasty.
    • 4/5
      Very well written, not surprisingly... Verducci is the best baseball writer around (not including the Baseball Prospectus/Seamhead types... that's a different kind of writing).Not nearly as controversial as the trailers would have had you believe, but there are enough cringe-inducing private clubhouse moments to ask yourself why Joe found in necessary to write this book.
    • 5/5
      The listed authorship of this book is deceptive, as it gives the impression that this is an "as told to memoir." But the book is all written in the third person, clearly by Verducci, not Torre, as a history of those years that Joe Torre managed the Yankees. Obviously, Verducci spent many hours interviewing Torre for this (as well as many other sources), as the book heavily relies upon quotes from Torre and on Torre's memories of events. My guess is that Torre included his name as co-author in order to avow his support for and approval of the contents of the book. Or maybe it was a marketing decision. Or maybe both.At any rate, this is an excellent, excellent baseball history, and not just for Yankee fans. Verducci does a great job of describing the in and outs, the personalities, the drama and melodrama, of the 12 seasons that Joe Torre managed the Yankees, including the incredible run of championships at the beginning of Torre's tenure. But Verducci also does a great job of placing all those events within the context of the developments going on in and around the Yankees in the world of major league baseball in general. Both the steroid situation and the changes in scouting and player appraisal heralded by the arrival of the "Moneyball" philosphy are covered well, for example.This is a smart, well-written, in-depth book, of interest to all baseball fans, I would think, not just for Yankee fans.

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    • 4/5
      The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom VerducciAs a die hard Red Sox fan reporting on a book about the Yankees let me first say this:YANKEES SUCK!Okay now that I have taken care of all of the housekeeping items I will begin the review. As you are reading this you might ask, what is a Red Sox fan doing reading a book about the Evil Empire? Hearing this question I might answer, because if there was any one good thing ever in the history of the Yankees organization, it was Joe Torre. Torre is a class act and a consummate professional. What I will never be able to get through my head is why the Yankees ever let this man go. Let’s look at the hard facts; Torre managed the Yankees for 12 successive seasons. The Yankees made the play-offs in all 12 of those seasons (this is a mind boggling feat, I know people will argue that the Yankees always had (by far) the largest payroll in the league, but still making the play-offs each year is very impressive). Of those 12 seasons the Yankees went to 6…..count ‘em 6 World Series. And of the 6 World Series, won 4 of them. These stats are mind blowing, half of Joe’s tour of duty ended with the Yankees playing in the last games of the MLB season. Ok, so the Yankees organization is not satisfied unless the team wins the World Series, so they decide since they hadn’t won the Series since 2000 that it was time for a change. So what happened? They fired Joe Torre who went on to manage the LA Dodgers and brought them to the 2nd round of the play-offs; a team that didn’t make the play-offs in 2007. The Yankees then hired Joe Girardi as their new manager. Girardi in turn brought the Yankees to a thrilling World Series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. No wait I’m a little off……..oh ya here we go…….Giradrdi’s Yankees didn’t even make the play-offs (for the 1st time in 13 years). Oh and as a side note to the argument about the Yankees having the highest payroll in the league during the Torre years, they still had the highest payroll last season under Girardi.But I digress The Yankee Years although thoroughly different from the book I expected it to be was a pleasurable read. Especially Chapter 10 End of the Curse; a detailed description of the 2004 ALCS where the Boston Red Sox came back from an 0-3 deficit (1st and only time a team has come back and won down 3 games in a best of 7 series in Major League Baseball history) to overthrow the Yankees and went on to win the ’04 World Series.The media had touted this book as blasphemous account of Torre’s years with the Yankees. These media reports even suggested that the Yankees might consider entering clauses into employee contracts banning them from writing about the Yankees during or at the conclusion of there employment. I didn’t find any such treachery documented within the pages of this book. It certainly included tidbits of information that would not be readily available to a fan of the game, but there was by no means any ill begotten secrets scrolled upon the pages. This book is just as the title states; The Yankee Years. It is about the Yankees during the 12 year period of Joe Torre’s management reign. If you are looking for a Joe Torre memoir, then you haven’t found the right book. But if you are interested in what happened over the last 12 years in the Yankee organization, then this book is certainly worth the read.
    • 4/5
      When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series in 18 years. He quickly turned that around with a World Series win in 1996 and three World Series wins after that. During his entire tenure in New York (1996 – 2007), Torre took his team to the playoffs every season. “The Yankee Years” covers Torre’s time with the Yankees, both the good and the bad, the perfect games, the World Series wins, the disastrous 2004 playoffs, the attack of the midges.“The Yankee Years” is a good look at the (often turbulent) tenure of Joe Torre as the Yankee’s manager. This isn’t a book about Joe Torre the man (outside of his wife and daughter there’s very little mention of his family or private life) but Torre the baseball guy. It is a good insider’s look at what worked for the Yankees and what didn’t work, especially in Torre’s last years with the team. It is also a good look at certain players through the years with the Yankees (Bernie Williams, Chuck Knoblauch, Paul O’Neill, Andy Pettitte, Carl Pavano, Derek Jeter, Roger Clemens, Jorge Posada, and Alex Rodriguez, among others). The book also covers Torre’s relationship with George Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, and other members of Yankee’s management. The steroids scandal and the Yankees players involved in it are dealt with extensively in the book. The Yankees playoffs and World Series wins are covered in detail in the book as is the Yankees – Red Sox rivalry.Since “The Yankee Years” is written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, it is hardly an unbiased look at Torre’s years with the Yankees. It is obvious which players Torre was found of (for example Paul O’Neill, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter) and those he was less fond of (for example, Carl Pavano, A-Rod). The book is particularly hard on A-Rod, admittedly an easy target, yet it inexplicably doesn’t mention one of his more notorious incidents – swatting the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s hands during the 2004 playoffs. Torre was clearly hurt by the way the Yankees treated him at the end and is open about it, yet very kind when talking about Steinbrenner’s declining health. Torre does an admirable job of talking about the steroids scandal and the Yankees players and workers involved, although he comes across as a bit naïve when he insists he neither saw nor heard talk of steroids in the clubhouse. There are some interesting revelations in the book that may surprise long time Yankee fans.“The Yankee Years” is a classy book by a classy man. Nicely done.