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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness | 
 enlarge | Author: Buster Olney
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 167168
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0061672874
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780061672873
ASIN: 0061672874
Publication Date: July 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
En epic tale well told December 14, 2008
Gerard Mccaffrey (Belfast)
Can not recommend this book highly enough. Just as the title suggests it revolves around the Yankees World Seris game 7 against the DiamondBacks taking you through the game, detailing the characters and their background and involvement in the Yankee dynasty that would end with this game. You do not need to be interested in baseball to be intralled by this rich tapestry of life and human endeavour. Even the rich and famous have to live with their demons...
Why is Rivera on the cover? August 2, 2008
Le George (Yorkshire, UK)
On reading this book you get an understanding of why Mariano Rivera is on the front cover. Because this book is less about THAT baseball game, and more about the lives of the people involved. And to that end, Rivera comes across not only as a great player but also as a great person.
The story is one of dignity in defeat. And Rivera has it.
The book is a joy because it confirms or destroys, in equal measures, your long held views of the biggest stars in the game, and does so by weaving their life stories around their involvement on that night at the BOB.
You really won't take long to read it.
A Fine Read January 15, 2008
Mr. P. J. Oxenbury (Gloucester, England)
A highly detailed and fascinating insight into the New York Yankees of the late 90's/early 00's. Buster Olney has obviously done a tremendous amount of research into the topic and it has paid off with a well informed narrative centred around the Yankees World Series game 7 defeat to Arizona Diamondbacks.
The stories Olney relates give a wonderful insight into characters like Steinbrenner, Cashman and Clemens, add to this a few humourous anecdotes (especially surrounding David Wells) and you have a must read for Yankee fans and haters (such as myself!)
Enlightening! May 12, 2006
Neil Martin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A fantastic insight into the experiences of the Dynasty of the late 1990's, and a butal account of that November night in Arizona...
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