Catfish, Yaz, and Hammerin' Hank: The Unforgettable Era That Transformed Baseball
Phil Pepe has written and ghostwritten many sports books, and in this outing he puts together a fast moving oral history of the s on and off the diamond.
The decade started with the game-changing off-the-field salvo of Curt Flood's challenge to the reserve clause, and ended with the on-the-field triumph of the "We are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates in the bold gold stretch double-knit and stovepipe hats. Pepe weaves together short recaps of key events with long quotes from key participants like
* Marvin Miller, the union lawyer who made the MLB Players Association a real union with power to change the game.
* Billy Martin, the flamboyant and lamented late manager who helped remake the Yankee legacy in between sparring rounds with the Boss.
* Reggie Jackson, the loud and powerful slugger and helped the two dynasties of the decade (the Oakland A's and the Yankees) keep a hammerlock on the World Series.
* Tommy John, the pitching master who gave his name to the surgery that remade the careers of every pitcher thereafter.
The stories
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Phil Pepe: The original &#;Chipmunk&#;
Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Ford, Mantle, Jackson, Mattingly? Of Torre, Jeter, and Rivera? Of forty American League pennants, twenty-seven World Championships, and nearly forty Hall of Famers?
Like so many great American institutions, the Yankees began humbly, on the muddy, uneven grass of Hilltop Park. Eighteen years later the little second-class franchise won its first pennant. Today, the Yankees are worth more than a billion dollars.
It's been nearly seventy years since Frank Graham wrote the last narrative history of the Yankees. Marty Appel, the Yankees' PR director during the s, now illuminates the team in its hundred-plus years of glory: clever, maneuvering owners; rowdy, talented players; great stories behind the great stories. Appel heard tales from old-timers like Waite Hoyt, Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, and Whitey Ford, and has remained close to the organization ever since. He gives life to the team's history, from the demise of Hilltop Park in the s to the evolution of today's team as an international brand. With a wealth o
I found out this morning from Dan Taylor's Facebook page that sportswriter Phil Pepe passed away at age Phil was best known for writing over 50 books. If you want to see them go to Worldcat and do a search on his name. For many years he was a reporter for the New York Daily News.
I best remember him for being part of the morning team on Harry Harrison's show on WCBS-FM. In the photo above you can see from left to right Phil, Harry, Mr. G. and Debra Wetzel. Phil's sports reports were always concise and to the point. At PM on Bob Shannon's show he would make comments on his segment called the Pep Talk,
Phil was certainly an asset to his profession and will certainly be missed by his friend and colleagues. His books will live on. My condolences to his family.
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