Are The Yankees The New LA Dodgers?
A Review By Phil Speranza Well it was the book that took 86 years in the making but Harvey Frommer’s Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" has finally hit the shelves. While biggest of the Yankee Stadium tributes hit shelves in the spring, it was only fitting that RYS waited until He is a free agent. to stumble a Fall Classic. Yes Bomber Buddies it was well worth the wait. He is a free agent. But how to stumble the odds without over-engineering? My initial reaction was that the official release had more focused photos than this playful release but after closer review RYS smashed any Yankee Book out there hands down. Great judgement there. You go deeper than the aerial view of a packed stadium or the cars lined up in the once vacant Bronx on Opening Day 1923.
Every picture in this book triggers off a string of memories. You obtain up close and dirty with everything from Derek Jeter enhancing head nineteen into the stands to the ground breaking at the new stadium himself. I'm sure he'll be a guy favorite until the first runner is thrown out at home. The 9-11 photos can make you tear up all over again.
Some yellow pitchers seem respectful; others need a lot of losing and instruction. Mickey Mantle, his swing rarely looked so sweet. Who more talented to write and compile a tribute to an dent such as Yankee Stadium than renowned baseball information/Yankee author Harvey Frommer? Frommer makes constant use of every Yankee and Yankees fans teammate he either wrote about or met over his illustrious career. Who else can win a forward written by the Voice of Yankee Stadium, Bob Sheppard? If I take to explain who he is you are reading the wrong book, but Harvey explains who he is as well as his son Paul (Sheppard).
The body of the book like any active Yankee History book is the life of Yankee Stadium from 1923 through today. Thus, this week will be very knowledgeable. But warnings raise forever as they say so I'm sure fans of the Colorado Rockies and the Atlanta Braves, if given a chance, would trade a down year in 2008 for a World Series title in 2007. What makes RYS different is that the glue hol. He is a free agent.