Baseball's greatest series : Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 matchup that changed history / Chris Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Chris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports rivalries--United States--History--Sources.

Sports rivalries.

New York Yankees (Baseball team)--History--Sources.

New York Yankees (Baseball team).

Seattle Mariners (Baseball team)--History--Sources.

Seattle Mariners (Baseball team).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Baseball's Greatest Series details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. This division series was not simply about two teams playing five postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberryùand many others who changed the course of baseball history . . . A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest A manager who was literally managing for his job A New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier Chris Donnelly's replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle's Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem. From Don Mattingly's only postseason home run, which caused a near riot, to Edgar Martinez's legendary eleventh inning series-clinching double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle's victory. Simply stated, Baseball's Greatest Series hits a home run.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Don-nie Base-ball

2. Winless in Seattle

3. Bronx Bummers

4. Strike

5. Baseball Returns

6. Game 1: The Bronx, Baseball, and Beer Bottles

7. Game 2: A Classic in the Bronx

8. Game 3: Playoff Baseball in Seattle

9. Game 4: Saint Edgar

10. Game 5: Warriors, Heroes, and Heartbreak

11. Deconstructing the Yankees

12. Safeco Is Born

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-56237-1

9786612562372

0-8135-4913-2

OCLC:

647927395