Sweet Seasons, Recollections of the 1955-64 New York Yankees
by Forker, Dom
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original cream-colored cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (18.95)
- ISBN 10
- 0878337059
- ISBN 13
- 9780878337057
- Seller
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About This Item
Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1990. A gorgeous, pristine copy. As New condition in bright, shiny, As New Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No fading. No creases. Not a book club edition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Illustrated with a 16-page photo section. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on copyright page. Appendix: individual ballplayer career statistics. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "No team in the history of baseball was as gloriously successful over the span of a decade as the 1955-64 New York Yankees. SWEET SEASONS is the story of that team - the powerful Yankee dynasty that won an astounding nine pennants in ten years. In their own words, they tell us what it was like... From immortals like Whitey Ford and Enos Slaughter to role players like Ryne Duren and Phil Linz, and with special profiles of Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, and Elson Howard, SWEET SEASONS is packed with amusing anecdotes and behine-the-scenes details that bring back those golden baseball years of the '50s and '60 - when the Yankees were really America's Team." Keywords: Oral history. Major League Baseball. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original cream-colored cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (18.95). 8vo. xii, 220pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Sweet Seasons, Recollections of the 1955-64 New York Yankees
- Author
- Forker, Dom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Original cream-colored cloth
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Not Price Clipped (18.95)
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0878337059
- ISBN 13
- 9780878337057
- Publisher
- Taylor Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Dallas, Texas
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Oral history. Major League Baseball.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball;
- Size
- 8vo. xii, 220pp
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