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

by Lyle Spatz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786440832
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/11/2009
Pages:	335
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lyle Spatz recently stepped down after 25 years as the chairman of SABR’s Baseball Records Committee. He is the recipient of SABR’s Bob Davids and Henry Chadwick, and Seymour Medal awards, and among the books he has written or edited are biographies of Bill Dahlen, Willie Keeler, Dixie Walker and Hugh Casey.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

I. The Early Years     
II. The Teens     
III. The Twenties     
IV. The Thirties     
V. The Forties     
VI. The Fifties     
VII. The Sixties     
VIII. The Seventies     
IX. The Eighties     
X. The Nineties     

Selected Bibliography     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

complete...fascinating”—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; “covers every trade, player sale, purchase or free agent signing made by the Yankees from their first on June 10, 1903”—The SABR Bulletin; “details more than 600 transactions and sets each in its historical perspective”—Sports Collectors Digest; “thoroughly researched, entertainly presented...wonderful”—Baseballology.

From the Publisher

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

important...an excellent index...highly readable

Nine

complete...fascinating

SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter

Important...an excellent index...highly readable.

NINE