Sweet Seasons: Recollections of the 1955-64 New York Yankees
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Publisher Description
Sweet Seasons, the sequel to The Men of Autumn, contains interviews with and recollections of players active between 1955 and 1964. The players included:
Bobby Richardson
Whitey Ford
Bill Skowron
Bob Turley
Jim Bouton
Luis Arroyo
Andy Carey
Ryne Duren
Norm Siebern
Jerry Lumpe
Al Downing
Johnny Blanchard
Johnny Kucks
Hector Lopez
Billy Hunter
Enos Slaughter
Bobby Shantz
Phil Linz
Art Ditmar
Tom Sturdivant
Steve Hamilton
Pedro Ramos
Hal Reniff
Buddy Daley
Bill Stafford
Eddie Robinson
Dale Long
Rollie Sheldon
Mickey Mantle
Yogi Berra
Elston Howard
Roger Maris
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the decade beginning in 1955, the Yankees won nine pennants and four world championships under the leadership of Casey Stengel, Ralph Houk and Yogi Berra. This sequel to The Men of Autumn comprises interviews with players active during the period: Whitey Ford, Jim Bouton and Enos Slaughter, as well as many journeyman athletes long since forgotten. But of the players most fans would like to hear from, Roger Maris and Elston Howard were dead when the volume was assembled; Mickey Mantle and Berra refused to be interviewed. The result is a book that falls as flat as a ground-out to second base--one that will very likely appeal only to Yankee diehards starved for still more information, however marginal, about the team's distant history. Photos not seen by PW.