Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999 [Paperback]

Lyle Spatz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2009

Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees. The author sets both the players and the deal in historical perspective, explaining why the Yanks and the other club involved made the deal, what expectations the owners, general managers and managers of the respective teams had for their new players, and, for some, what the players involved thought about their old and new teams. This book corrects many errors in trade dates listed in encyclopedias and trade registers.

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Lyle Spatz of Boynton Beach, Florida, has been chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research's Baseball Records Committee since 1991. He is also the author of several McFarland books including New York Yankee Openers (1997, Seymour Medal Finalist). --SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter

"Important...an excellent index...highly readable" --Nine

"Every trade, sale and promotion in Pinstripe history, including the scandalous swaps during the 1950s between the cash-strapped Athletics and their big-city New York 'cousins'" --USA Today Sports Weekly

About the Author

Lyle Spatz of Boynton Beach, Florida, has been chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research's Baseball Records Committee since 1991. He is also the author of several McFarland books including New York Yankee Openers (1997, Seymour Medal Finalist).

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: McFarland (January 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078644083X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786440832
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Where Did All The Yankees Go?, June 25, 2000

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Gary Rosenthal (Olney, Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999 (Hardcover)

Yankee Fan, Red Sox Fan, Oriole Fan, Tiger Fan, Dodger Fan, etc. etc. If you are simply a baseball fan, then you will love to read about how the Yankee tradition was built. While you may know the story of Babe Ruth becoming a Yankee, do you know who the Yankees dropped when they picked up Johnny Mize? (what a shock!) How about who they traded to get Roger Maris? An incredibly interesting and well researched book. I recommend this book for anyone who has the slightest bit of interest in baseball history.

5.0 out of 5 stars Celerino Sanchez Lives!, February 17, 2010

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This review is from: Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999 (Paperback)

Having grown weary of the endless stream of Yankee books containing regurgitated tellings of "classic" stories, I was delighted to find a volume that explored the nuts and bolts of Yankee history in a well-researched and well-written way. If the author's aim was to breathe life into the agate type that makes up the Transactions section of the newspaper, I'd say he hit a home run. One of the few McFarland baseball books I own that was actually worth the price!