The Zen Of Zim: Baseballs, Beanballs, And Bosses - Softcover

Zimmer, Don; Madden, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312937652 ISBN 13: 9780312937652

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A continuation of the baseball leader's personal story, which began with the best-selling Zim, discusses the eight years he spent alongside Yankees manager Joe Torre, the circumstances that ended his friendship with George Steinbrenner, and the events that prompted his haymaker throw at Pedro Martinez. Reprint.

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From the Back Cover

A LIFETIME IN THE GAME

For more than a half-century-from rookie to honored baseball legend-Don Zimmer has lived his dream. He's played for the best managers the game has ever known. He's toured every major city in America. And he's shared the field with such greats as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Don Drysdale, and Sandy Koufax. Scoring six World Championship rings, Zimmer has overcome more than his share of obstacles to remain loyal to himself, the game, his fans, and to fifty-years of fellow teammates, managers, and coaches by way of old-school smarts, versatility, resilience, and a true love of the sport. Now, with scrappy humor, keen insight, and an opinionated bull's-rush honesty, Zimmer delivers a grand-slam memoir of the challenges, regrets, glories, and triumphs that only a world-class act who's been-there-done-that, could tell.

THIS IS ZIM ON:
* The fallout with George Steinbrenner that ended a twenty-five-year personal and
professional relationship
* His Fenway Park throw-down with Pedro Martinez that made national headlines
* His successful eight-year run as Joe Torre's right-hand man
* His lifelong friendships with his 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers team
* The effect of big-money on team solidarity
* His frank opinions of ballplayers-and the game-past and present

WITH 16 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS

"Zim's a guy who's been around baseball for a hundred years and he just makes it fun. I look at him as a wise old Buddha."-Derek Jeter

"It's a sentimental memoir in the best old-fashioned American sense."
-The Chicago Sun Times

About the Author

DON ZIMMER's baseball career has spanned 56 years and seven decades. Zimmer went from top prospect to near-tragedy after a beaning in the minor leagues, but he fought back to put together a prolific baseball career. He is the author of Zim-A Baseball Life, and he lives in Treasure Island, Florida.

BILL MADDEN is an award-winning columnist with the New York Daily News who has covered baseball for 35 years and has been a national baseball columnist since 1988. He is the author of Pride of October and co-author of Damned Yankees and, with Don Zimmer, Zim-A Baseball Life. He has known Zimmer for over twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312937652
• ISBN 13: 9780312937652
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 306