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Plenty of folks can tell you where they were when JFK was shot or the Challenger exploded or what have you--Red Sox and Yankee fans can tell you where they were when Grady Little sent Pedro out to pitch the 8th, or when Dave Righetti pitched a 4th of July no-hitter, or when Bucky "F'in" Dent hit The Homerun.. For all those fans we highly recommend this new book by Harvey Frommer, a long-time chronicler of the Yankees, and his son, Frederic. They've combined a history of the two teams and their many contests with personal reminiscences--their own and those of players, other fans, and the rich and famous--and a host of terrific photographs to create a kind of scrapbook of the rivalry that some refer to as the American version of Athens (Boston) vs. Sparta (New York). In a book awash with great anecdotes it's hard to pick just one, but here's a Don Zimmer quote from the period when the tension between the two great catchers, Carlton Fisk and Thurman Munson, was as fierce as that between the teams in general: Fisk hated Munson, Munson hated Fisk, and everyone hated Bill Lee.Such hatreds have never been more enjoyable than they are in these pages. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B+) Tweet Websites:-AUTHOR SITE: Harvey Frommer Sports -BOOK SITE: Remembering Yankee Stadium -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Remembering Yankee Stadium with Harvey Frommer (WCBS Radio) -BOOK SITE: Rickey and Robinson (Harvey Frommer) -ARCHIVES: Harvey Frommer on Sports & Culture (Travel-Watch) -EXCERPT: Dale Berra from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Gene Conley from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Pumpsie Green from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Keith Hernandez from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Monte Irvin from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Mel Parnell from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Johnny Pesky from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Al Rosen from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Nolan Ryan from Growing up Baseball -EXCERPT: Bobby Thomson from Growing up Baseball -ESSAY: Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Yankee Mystique (Harvey Frommer, Travel-Watch) -ESSAY: Don Larsen - The Perfect Game: October 8, 1956 (Harvey Frommer) -ESSAY: Celebrating Jackie Robinson (Harvey Frommer, January 31, 2000, Travel-Watch) -ESSAY: Bobby Thomson's Famous Homer Lives On (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Mets Have Always Been Amazing (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Remembering the Yankee Clipper: Joe DiMaggio (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Celebrating Hank Greenberg (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Yankees vs. Red Sox: Baseball's Greatest Rivalry (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Reese was no Pee Wee (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Willie Mays and the Month of May (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Gehrig's Streak (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Yankee Stadium's First Opening Day (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Birth of Baseball's First Professional Team (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Midsummer Classic: Midsummer Mockery (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Subway Series (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Remembering Irving Rudd (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Satchel Paige: World's Greatest Pitcher (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Yankee Mystique (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Trade a Player a Year Too Early, Not a Year Too Late (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Baseball's Mecca: The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Harmonica Incident: August 20, 1964 (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The 1919 Black Sox (Part I) (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The 1919 Black Sox (Part II) (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The First World Series (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Let's Play Two (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: Wee Willie Keeler: Good Things Come in Small Packages (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: The Big Train: Walter Johnson, Baseball Immortal (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -ESSAY: New York City Baseball: Once Upon A Time (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of Baseball's Best Shots (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of The Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of Red Smith on Baseball (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of "Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures" (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of Yankee Doodle Dandies: Yankee Books (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of Baseball Books On Parade (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -REVIEW: of Sandy Koufax, Out of Brooklyn (Harvey Frommer, Baseball Library) -CHAT TRANSCRIPT: Growing Up Baseball with Harvey Frommer (Washington Post, 4/01/02) -CHAT TRANSCRIPT: It Happened in Manhattans with Myrna & Harvey Frommer (Washington Post, 5/13/02) -CHAT TRANSCRIPT: Baseball Labor Negotiations with Harvey Frommer (Washington Post, 8/30/02) -CHAT TRANSCRIPT: A Yankee Century with Harvey Frommer (Washington Post, 10/11/02) -REVIEW: of Remembering Yankee Stadium (Travis Nelson, Bleacher Report) -REVIEW: of A Yankee Century (Phil Speranza, Behind the Bombers) -REVIEW: of The New York Yankee Encyclopedia By Harvey Frommer (Dan Albaugh, World-Wide Collectors Digest) -REVIEW: of Primitive Baseball by Harvey Frommer (Gene Murdoch, Journal of Sport History) -REVIEW: of It Happened in Manhattan By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer (Carter B. Horsley, City Review) -REVIEW: of It Happened in Manhattan (Kendal Dodge Butler, Culture Vulture) -REVIEW: of It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer (Carter B. Horsley, City Review) -REVIEW: of It Happened on Broadway (Kendal Dodge Butler, Culture Vulture) -REVIEW: of It Happened on Broadway (Victor Castillo, KC Stage) -REVIEW: of It Happened on Broadway (Elyse Sommer, Curtain Up) Book-related and General Links: |
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