October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 - Hardcover

Kahn, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151006288 ISBN 13: 9780151006281

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

The author of The Boys of Summer turns his attention to one of the great summers of baseball history--1978--the year the Yankees won the World Series after a tumultuous season. 60,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Good news for fans of the game, and of words."

"Kahn supplies a behind-the-scenes look at what made that team tick but not explode."

"Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing combined with an unmatched institutional memory."

"Insightful and compelling. With crisp, smart writing, he makes the case that the team was a less-than-harmonic convergence."

"High, hard and tight."

"October Men seems effortlessly written, like all of Mr. Kahn''s books. . . . A compelling story."

"History, humor, and drama, but the historical research and psychological analysis give it a place in every baseball fan''s collection."

PRAISE FOR OCTOBER MEN
"Not content merely to rehash the details of Bucky Dent's home run,
October Men instead sprawls like a great ballpark conversation,
encompassing the big and the small, the old and the new, the sacred
and the profane."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Roger Kahn, the author who immortalized The Boys of Summer,
does equal justice to the '78 crew."--USA TODAY
"Kahn's glittering group portrait paints theYanks as both goats and
heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both
roles. . . . He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen."
--TIME
PRAISE FOR OCTOBER MEN
Not content merely to rehash the details of Bucky Dent s home run,
October Men instead sprawls like a great ballpark conversation,
encompassing the big and the small, the old and the new, the sacred
and the profane. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Roger Kahn, the author who immortalized The Boys of Summer,
does equal justice to the 78 crew. USA TODAY
Kahn s glittering group portrait paints theYanks as both goats and
heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both
roles. . . . He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen.
TIME
"

PRAISE FOR OCTOBER MEN
Not content merely to rehash the details of Bucky Dent s home run,
October Men instead sprawls like a great ballpark conversation,
encompassing the big and the small, the old and the new, the sacred
and the profane. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Roger Kahn, the author who immortalized The Boys of Summer,
does equal justice to the 78 crew. USA TODAY
Kahn s glittering group portrait paints theYanks as both goats and
heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both
roles. . . . He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen.
TIME
"

From the Back Cover:

"[Kahn is] a master storyteller . . . October Men sprawls like a great ballpark conversation, encompassing the big and the small, the old and the new, the sacred and the profane."-The New York Times Book Review
On the morning of October 2, 1978, the Yankees, once fourteen games behind, found themselves tied for first place with the Boston Red Sox. They capped one of the most thrilling comebacks in baseball history by defeating the Red Sox that afternoon in a game that many still remember as the greatest ever played. Transporting us into the midst of this unforgettable team, Roger Kahn weaves the first in-depth account of the legendary season of '78 and renders the story an American classic.
"It's not a nice story but a gripping one. And Kahn tells it with his customary verve."-Los Angeles Times
"Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles . . . He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen."-Time

Widely acclaimed as the greatest baseball writer of his generation, Roger Kahn is the author of sixteen books, including The Boys of Summer, named by Sports Illustrated as the best baseball book of all time. He lives in Stone Ridge, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0151006288
• ISBN 13: 9780151006281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368