Yankee Colors: The Glory Years of the Mantle Era [Hardcover]

Al Silverman (Author), Christopher Sweet (Editor), Marvin E. Newman (Photographer), Yogi Berra (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2009

Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare and many unpublished color photographs of the Yankees from the golden age of the celebrated baseball team. Yankee Colors tells the story of the legendary period from 1949 to 1964 when New York baseball was supreme and the New York Yankees were in the World Series almost every year. Now, this glorious period of Yankees history is captured through the intimate lens of famed sports photographer Marvin Newman. He was one of the only sports photographers of the time shooting in color and capturing the Yankee greats such as Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Casey Stengel, and Yogi Berra. Images of regular season games, pennant races, World Series competition, and Yankee Stadium are included.

 

This book is a must for every Yankee and baseball fan, with behind-the-scenes moments and photos of the greatest baseball icons of the time.

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About the Author

Marvin E. Newman's work has been exhibited at museums across the U.S. including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been a national president of the American Society of Media  Photographers and was a contributing photographer for Sports Illustrated.

Al Silverman coauthored Gale Sayer's bestselling autobiography, I Am Third. He was a sportswriter and editor of Sport Magazine, and later the publisher of Viking.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Abrams (March 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810996383
• ISBN-13: 978-0810996380
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Sports

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yankees come alive in COLORS, May 25, 2009

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Steven G. Ike (Bloomfield, Ct.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yankee Colors: The Glory Years of the Mantle Era (Hardcover)

Mantle, Maris,Howard,and Stengle live again in the book YANKEE COLORS.
The photos,most rarely seen,Jump off of page after page of breataking color photography. These images make you pine for these long gone Gods of Baseball. The book is also well written, making it a joy to read and gawk at. The black and white photos are not bad either.
A must for yankee fans of all ages, and Baseball fans in general.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful pictures of the best years to be a Yankee fan, May 13, 2009

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J. Groen "Jerry Groen" (GURNEE, ILLINOIS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yankee Colors: The Glory Years of the Mantle Era (Hardcover)

I received this book as a birthday present. I grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey in the 1960s and was a die hard Yankee fan. Looking at the beautiful pictures of Yankee stadium and the greats from that era brought back the memories of the best years (in my opinion) to be a Yankee fan. I especially liked the sections regarding the World Series with the Dodgers (1955-56, and 1963), the Braves (1957-58), the Pirates (1960), the Reds (1961), the Giants (1962) and the Cardinals (1964). In providing these stories and the supporting pictures, the book is surprisingly not biased towards the Yankees. It gives a good balanced showing of what happened. So, it is even a good book for a baseball fan of that era. For that reason, I highly recommend it especially for Yankee fans but also for all baseball fans of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Looking at a Stack of Old Baseball Cards--Return To Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear..., October 15, 2009

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Big D (Auburn, AL. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yankee Colors: The Glory Years of the Mantle Era (Hardcover)

All this book needs is Dizzy Dean saying, "The Yank-kees a-coming to bat..." as only he could say it. (Always wondered why a former Cardinal player was so enthralled with the Yankees as an announcer!!!)

This book is a treat to a child of the fifties and sixties, especially those of us who collected baseball cards and knew the value, even then, of a good, mint-condition Mickey Mantle.

This is a great book, a thrilling return to the days of yesteryear when heroes could be heroes, when we were young and unencumbered with the cares of the world.

This book is a trip back in time. And its a good, enjoyable and worthwhile trip, no matter if you are a Yankee fan or a Yankee hater. This was and is baseball at its best. This book is a treasure trove of memories, warm thoughts and wishes--wishes that the game could be once again as it was then.

If you are a child of the fifties and sixties, it is a chronicle of our lives, a more simpler, pure, clean time in our lives...before money and too much media destroyed it all.

Look back, remember, feel good and then, feel a little sadness that these days are gone and these players, who played for the love of the game are gone, the likes of which are never to return.