The Yankee Encyclopedia; Volume 3 de Gallagher, Mark - 1997

Champaign, IL: Sagamore Publishing, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Steve Crandall (back cover photograph and Trophy p. The format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12.25 inches by 1.75 inches. xxii, [2], 535, [1] pages. Illustrations. Statistics. DJ is price clipped. Minor corner bumping noted. This is a heavy item and if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. Includes a section up front on the 1996 World Championship Season. Chapters include The Record, Player Biographies, The Long Pinstriped Line, The Managers, Owners and Top Executives, The People Behind the Scenes, Season Summaries, American League Playoffs, World Series, Home Ballparks and Attendance, Honors, Awards and League Leaders, Statistics and Records--Player and Team, and Players of the 1990s. Mark Gallagher was a noted baseball author and researcher who published in the Society for American Baseball Research periodical as well as in longer book-length treatments. Who was the first manager of the Yankees? What year did the Yankees win their first World Series? Who pitched the shutout in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series? Who had the key hit in Game 4 of the 1996 Word Series? These questions, along with hundreds more, are answered in The Yankee Encyclopedia: Volume 3. Updated from Vol.2 to include the 1996 world-championship season. The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City alongside the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. The team was founded in 1903 when Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise rights to the defunct Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current team of the same name) after it ceased operations and used them to establish the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913.
The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a limited liability company that is controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner purchased the team from CBS in 1973. Currently, Brian Cashman is the team's general manager, and Aaron Boone is the team's field manager. The team's home games were played at the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. In 1974 and 1975, the Yankees shared Shea Stadium with the Mets, in addition to the New York Jets and the New York Giants. In 2009, they moved into a new ballpark of the same name that was constructed adjacent to the previous facility, which was closed and demolished. The team is perennially among the leaders in MLB attendance. One of the most successful professional sports clubs in the United States, the Yankees have won 20 American League East Division titles, 40 American League pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB records.