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Baseball's
Greatest Series
Price: $24.95
Subtitle: Yankees, Mariners,
and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History
Author:
Chris Donnelly
Subject: Regional
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4662-9
Pages:
336 pages
Publication Date: January 2010
Rivergate BooksTM
Praise:
"Baseball's
Greatest Series chronicles the riveting 1995 American League
Division Series battle between the New York Yankees and Seattle
Mariners with wit and precision, exploring the divergent background of
each franchise with remarkable depth. "Donnie Baseball," in the only
postseason appearance of his illustrious career, deservedly takes
center stage."-Gordon Engelhardt, Evansville
Courier & Press
Description:
Baseball’s Greatest Series
details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in
baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees
and the Seattle Mariners.
This division series was not simply about two teams playing five
postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck
Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony
Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberry—and many others who
changed the course of baseball history . . .
- A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest
- A manager who was literally managing for his job
- A New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of
the
dominating player he had been a decade earlier
Chris Donnelly’s replay of this entire season reminds readers
that it
was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and
others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over
one another while 57,000 people in Seattle’s Kingdome celebrated. Five
games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating
players’ strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks
are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem.
From Don Mattingly’s only postseason home run, which caused a near
riot, to Edgar Martinez’s legendary eleventh inning series-clinching
double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during
the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of
the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle’s
victory. Simply stated, Baseball’s
Greatest Series hits a home run.
About the Author:
CHRIS DONNELLY,
a lifelong baseball fan, is a graduate of the College of New Jersey. He
resides in Mercer County, New Jersey, with his wife, Jamie.
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