The Yankee Way
The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era
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- 13,99 €
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Publisher Description
With rare access to the inner sanctum of the New York Yankees, SNY analyst Andy Martino weaves two years of exclusive interviews with general manager Brian Cashman into a revelatory account of never-before-told stories about Derek Jeter, Aaron Judge, Alex Rodriguez, the complex front office, team ownership, and insights into the World Series wins and day-to-day running of the team that fans never get to see.
When Brian Cashman arrived in the Bronx as an intern in 1986, he discovered a team in chaos, run on impulse and emotion and lacking the sheen that had defined the Yankees in earlier eras. Decades later, Cashman had risen through the ranks of the front office, earned the trust of the Steinbrenner family, and become the longest-serving GM in the Yankees’ storied history, helping to transform the Yankees to glory with a string of World Series championships and an unmatched streak of winning seasons.
With unprecedented inside access and featuring exclusive interviews with Cashman, owner Hal Steinbrenner, top front-office executives, current Yankee stars and coaches, award-winning baseball journalist Andy Martino gives fans a view from the GM’s seat that we would never normally see. From Cashman’s battles with inscrutable team captain Derek Jeter, to tensions between Jeter and A-Rod, to Cashman’s struggles with beloved manager Joe Torre. This book explores the management of egos on the field and in the front office, as well as the evolution of the manager position over generations and into the analytics era. Packed with drama and intrigue, this is the definitive inside account of the most intriguing and storied franchise in Major League Baseball.
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Martino (Cheated), who covers Major League Baseball for SportsNet New York, delivers a winning chronicle of the recent history of the New York Yankees focused on the tenure of general manager Brian Cashman. Drawing on extensive interviews with his subject and other Yankee insiders, Martino recounts how Cashman first joined the team's front office as a 19-year-old intern in 1986. The mercurial whims of owner George Steinbrenner caused no shortage of drama on and off the field, but Cashman was undeterred, rising to assistant general manager by 1992. After churning through six GMs in a little over a decade, Steinbrenner offered the position to Cashman, making him at age 30 the second-youngest GM in baseball history. In addition to charting Cashman's leadership of the franchise through four World Series titles, Martino uses his subject's reign to explore larger trends in the sport, detailing the transition from "gut feeling to analytics" by discussing how in the mid-aughts Cashman threatened to quit in order to force a reluctant Steinbrenner to hire an analyst. Martino also dishes out plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes details, describing the frequent ego clashes between Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, as well as how Cashman fell out with skipper Joe Torre over the latter's handling of the team's pitching program. A colorful portrait of a transformative era, this should be required reading for Yankees fans.
