Pride of October

“A loving appreciation of what it means to wear pinstripes,” this must-read for baseball fans features reminiscences from former Yankee players (New York Times Book Review).

No other team has come close to dominating baseball like the New York Yankees, with twenty-six World Series wins and thirty-eight American League championships. No wonder no other team has a frac­tion of baseball books published about them. Bill Madden adds another to the lengthy list with Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee.

From Phil Rizzuto and Whitey Ford to Lou Piniella and Paul O’Neil, Don Mattingly and Yogi Berra, seventeen former Yankees and one Yankee widow, reveal their memories about their careers. The wide range of Yankee seasons is reflected in all the players selected, so questions range from the reality of Babe Ruth’s “called home run,” to the shocking final inning of the 2001 World Series loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks with the “unbeatable” Yankee reliever Mario Rivera on the mound, and more.

“This one's a keeper.” —Booklist

“This is a special book. One you will pick up again and again.” —Newark Star Ledger