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Zusatztext “One of the best books about baseball ever written.”— New York Daily News "An insightful and non-hagiographic look at a legendary manager and team during one of baseball's most transformational eras."-- Boston Globe "The consummate insider's view of what may be the last great dynasty in baseball history."-- Los Angeles Times "An appealing portrait of a likable! hard-working man. One closes the book with a high regard for Mr. Torre! not least as a manager."-- Wall Street Journal "A lively chronicle. . . . What this book does . . . very persuasively is chart the rise and fall of one of baseball's great dynasties! while showing the care and feeding it took to bring the city of New York four championships in five years." —Michiko Kakutani! The New York Times "A capacious fresh account of [Torre’s] great run in the Bronx.... Verducci has range and ease; he's a shortstop on the page." — The New Yorker "Compelling. . . . A hybrid of insider reporting [and] autobiography." — The Christian Science Monitor “Fascinating reading.”— The New York Times Book Review “[Filled with] many insights! some about human nature! many about the great American game.” — Bloomberg News From the Trade Paperback edition. Informationen zum Autor Joe Torre played for the Braves! the Cardinals! and the Mets before managing all three teams. From 1996 to 2007! Torre managed the New York Yankees. He is currently the manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Joe Torre was the fourth choice. The veteran manager was out of work in October of 1995, four months removed from the third firing of his managerial career, when an old friend from his days with the Mets, Arthur Richman, a public relations official and special adviser to Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, called him with a question. “Are you interested in managing the Yankees?” Torre made his interest known without hesitation. “Hell, yeah,” he said. Only 10 days earlier, Torre had interviewed for the general manager’s job with the Yankees, but he had no interest in such an aggravation-filled job at its $350,000 salary, a $150,000 cut from what he had been earning as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals before they fired him in June. His brother Frank Torre did not think managing the Yankees was worth the hassle, either. After all, Steinbrenner had changed managers 21 times in his 23 seasons of ownership, adding Buck Showalter to the bloody casualty list by running him out of town after Showalter refused to acquiesce to a shakeup of his coaching staff. It didn’t matter to Steinbrenner that the Yankees reached the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, even if it was as the first American League wild card team in a strike-shortened season. Showalter’s crimes in Steinbrenner’s book were blowing a two games to one lead in the best-of-five Division Series against the Seattle Mariners, and resisting the coaching changes. “Why do you want this job?” Frank Torre asked his brother. “It’s a no-lose situation for me,” Joe replied. “I need to find out if I can do this or not.” Richman also had recommended to Steinbrenner three managers with higher profiles and greater success than Torre: Sparky Anderson, Tony LaRussa and Davey Johnson. None of those choices panned out. Anderson retired, LaRussa took the managing job in St. Louis and Johnson, returning to his ballplaying roots, took the job in Baltimore. LaRussa and Johnson received far more lucrative contracts than what Steinbrenner wanted to pay his next manager. “I’ve got to admit, I was the last choice,” Torre said. “It didn’t hurt my feelings, because it was an opportunity to work and find out if I can really manage. I certainly was going to have the lumber.” On Wednesday, November 1, Bob Watson, in his ninth day on the job as general manager after replacing Gen...
