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

Kahn, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156029715 ISBN 13: 9780156029711

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

[ October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 By ( Author ) Mar-2004 Paperback

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Review:

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

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

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

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

"High, hard and tight."
--Toronto Star

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

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

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: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0156029715
• ISBN 13: 9780156029711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382