Bill Madden : My 25 Years Covering Baseball's Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies

[Champaign, Illinois]: Sports Publishing LLC, 2004. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($24.95). Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in gold. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "In his 25 years covering baseball for the DAILY NEWS, Bill Madden has seen it all -- from trades to tirades, heroes to hucksters, and champions to cellar dwellers. He broke the story when baseball said good-bye to commissioner Fay Vincent in 1992 and predicted in 2001 that A-Rod would only stay with Texas for three years before jumping ship for a contender and being scooped up by, of all teams, the Yankees. He followed Joe Torre's Yankees as they won an unprecedented four world championships and six pennants in eight years! Join Madden on his quest for doomed pitching legend Steve Dalkowski and celebrate its happy ending. Take a road trip to Cooperstown and relive the heartwarming and humorous Hall of Fame inductions of 'Mr. October' Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver, Phil 'Scooter' Rizzuto, and other baseball legends. Go to Mickey Mantle's fantasy camp, where Madden interviewed The Mick just before his death. Get personal with His Bossness, George Steinbrenner, and celebrate Yogi Berra's 70th birthday with some Yogi-isms. Remember Dwight Gooden's no-hitter? David Wells's perfect game? Don Larsen's? Bill Madden was there for them all. He was also there when we said our sad good-byes to friends and legends such as Catfish Hunter, Steady Eddie Lopat, Bob Lemon, Mel Allen and Joe DiMaggio. His colorful interview with scout Uncle Hughie Alexander and his poignant column about the Braves players who pitched in to help the family of murdered replacement player David Shotkowski carried us through the dark days of the 1994 strike and helped remind us why we love baseball. Bill Madden's most intriguing, heartwarming, controversial and memorable Daily News columns -- a baseball road map for the last quarter-century -- come together in BILL MADDEN: MY 25 YEARS COVERING BASEBALL'S HEROES, SCOUNDRELS, TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES, proving that the truth, especially in the world of professional baseball, is often stranger than fiction - and usually more entertaining." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (viii), 328pp.