Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories: Unforgettable Tales from the House That Ruth Built

by Alex Belth (Editor)

Overview

In Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, editor Alex Belth of BronxBanterBlog.com collects personal essays by some of the most well-known and respected voices in sportswriting and entertainment today. In these revealing, sometimes hilarious, oft-touching essays, the contributors recount their favorite moments inside the most famed of all American stadiums. The book also includes a special chapter on the new Yankee Stadium.

Contributors include: Bob Costas (NBC, HBO) • Richard Ben Cramer • Pete Hamill • Tony Kornheiser (ESPN) • Tom Boswell (Washington Post) • Dave Kindred (Washington Post) • Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated) • William Nack (Sports Illustrated) • Joe Posnanski (Sports Illustrated) • Jane Leavy • Pat Jordan • Maury Allen (New York Post) • Bob Klapisch (Bergen Record) • Tyler Kepner (New York Times) • Allen Barra (Wall Street Journal) • Marty Appel • Jeff Pearlman • Alan Schwarz (New York Times) • Charles Pierce (Boston Globe) • Steve Rushin (Sports Illustrated) • Nathan Ward • Mike Vaccaro (New York Post) • Rob Neyer (ESPN.com) • Ken Rosenthal (ESPN) • Scott Raab (Esquire) • Luis Guzman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628731484
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	724 KB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Alex Belth is the author of Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories and Stepping Up, a critically acclaimed biography of Curt Flood, and a regular contributor to SportsIllustrated.com. After eight years spent working in the film industry for such notable filmmakers as Ken Burns, Woody Allen, and the Coen Brothers, Belth in 2002 founded BronxBanterBlog.com (now part of SNY TV’s blog network), which has become one of the most popular New York Yankees sites on the Internet. A lifelong Yankees fan, he lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York.

Yogi Berra is one of the greatest and most enduring legends in American sports.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction xi

Todd Drew 1

Richard Ben Cramer 5

Jane Leavy 7

Pat Jordan 14

Peter Richmond 18

John Schulian 20

Bill Nack 24

Pete Hamill 30

Ray Robinson 34

Bob Costas 38

Allen Barra 42

David Israel 45

Vic Ziegel 50

Maury Allen 51

George Kimball 53

Leigh Montville 62

Tom BosWell 65

Ed Randall 71

Will Weiss 75

Ed Alstrom 78

Dave Kaplan 82

Alan Schwarz 85

Ken Rosenthal 88

Johnette Howard 89

Bob Klapisch 92

Anthony McCarron 96

Dave Kindred 98

Mike Vaccaro 101

Pete Caldera 104

Joe Posnanski 106

Steve Rushin 109

Jeff PearlMan 111

Dave Zirin 113

Maggie Barra 115

Marty Appel 118

Bruce Markusen 120

Diane Firstman 122

Hank Waddles 125

Jay Jaffe 129

Steven Goldman 133

Jon DeRosa 138

Jonah Keri 142

Rob Neyer 145

Nathan Ward 150

Dayn Perry 153

Scott Raab 155

John C. McGinley 157

Luis Guzman 159

Cliff Corcoran 162

Josh Wilker 166

Charles Pierce 172

Kevin Baker 176

Mark Lamster 180

Glenn Stout 184

Emma Span 187

Tony Kornheiser 191

The New Stadium: First Impressions

Alex Belth 197

Neil Demause 204

Tyler Kepner 208

Marilyn Johnson 210

Ted Berg 212

Marsha Drew 215

Afterword: Additional Memory 219

Contributors 223

Acknowledgments 237

About The Editor 239