Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Bronx Bummers An Unofficial History of the ’ Bad Boys Blunders and Brawls by Robert Bronx Bummers - An Unofficial History of the New York Yankees' Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls by Robert Dominguez, David Hinckley (Paperback, 2016) The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable). Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See details for additional description. Bronx Bummers. An Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls. 269,00 Kč. 269,00 Kč. Publisher Description. Whether you love the Yankees or loathe them, even the most casual baseball fan is well versed on the team’s nearly 100-year lineage of legends that span the decades from Ruth to DiMaggio to Mantle to Jeter. Most every book on the Yankees, therefore, heralds the unparalleled winning tradition of the famed Bronx Bombers. This is not that kind of book. In Bronx Bummers: The Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls , authors Robert Dominguez and David Hinckley shine a light on the dark side of the team’s otherwise illustrious history. In 50 lighthearted chapters, Bronx Bummers begins with the tale of the Yankees’ first colorful owners in 1903 — one was a former New York police chief widely considered the most corrupt cop in city history, the other was Manhattan's biggest owner of illegal gambling dens — and continues through the sordid exploits of some of the team’s earliest stars, including a slick-fielding first baseman run out of baseball for throwing games; a good-hitting pitcher who derailed his Hall of Fame-bound career with his brawling and boozing ways; and even the great Babe Ruth himself, who regularly led the league in HRs, RBIs and STDs. And while most baseball teams have a history of bench-clearing brawls, Dominguez and Hinckley, veteran tabloid reporters, chronicle how the Yankees hold the unofficial record for most fights between teammates — not to mention the most front-office blunders. From the bad old days of the team’s origins as the Highlanders all the way to the Bronx Zoo years and beyond, Bronx Bummers divulges what really went on behind the boxscores of baseball's winningest franchise. Bronx Bummers: An Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls. Most every book on the Yankees, therefore, heralds the unparalleled winning tradition of the famed Bronx Bombers. This is not that kind of book. In Bronx Bummers: The Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls, authors Robert Dominguez and David Hinckley shine a light on the dark side of the team’s otherwise illustrious history. In 50 lighthearted chapters, Bronx Bummers begins with the tale of the Yankees’ first colorful owners in 1903 — one was a former New York police chief widely considered the most corrupt cop in city history, the other was Manhattan's biggest owner of illegal gambling dens — and continues through the sordid exploits of some of the team’s earliest stars, including a slick-fielding first baseman run out of baseball for throwing games; a good-hitting pitcher who derailed his Hall of Fame-bound career with his brawling and boozing ways; and even the great Babe Ruth himself, who regularly led the league in HRs, RBIs and STDs. And while most baseball teams have a history of bench-clearing brawls, Dominguez and Hinckley, veteran New York City tabloid reporters, chronicle how the Yankees hold the unofficial record for most fights between teammates — not to mention the most front-office blunders. From the bad old days of the team’s origins as the Highlanders all the way to the Bronx Zoo years and beyond, Bronx Bummers divulges what really went on behind the boxscores of baseball's winningest franchise. Об авторе. ROBERT DOMINGUEZ became a lifelong Yankees fan while growing up in the South Bronx in the shadow of the old Yankee Stadium, home office for many of his fondest childhood memories: Playing Little League in the park across the street where the new Stadium now stands, sneaking into countless games once the ushers left the gate, and thinking Bobby Murcer was even cooler than Joe Mannix and John Shaft combined. As a writer/editor for the New York Daily News for nearly 25 years, Robert’s had a chance to meet many of the former players he grew up idolizing. But he considers the full-count walk he worked against Ron Guidry while writing a story on Yankee Fantasy Camp as perhaps the shining moment of his journalistic career. DAVID HINCKLEY discovered baseball in the summer of 1956, when he was 7 years old. His team was the Brooklyn Dodgers. On Oct. 8 of that year, he raced home from third grade to ask his mother what had happened in the fifth game of the World Series, which had been tied 2-2. His mother, who was not a sports fan but had dutifully listened to the game on his behalf, looked up from her ironing to say she wasn't sure, but she thought one team didn't get any hits. That was the moment at which David realized that no matter what team you rooted for, your baseball universe would include the Yankees. A severe shortage of talent prevented him from taking his own baseball dreams anywhere, though one summer he did lead the Northern New Jersey Newspaper League in triples. Fortunately, journalism didn’t set the bar quite as high as baseball, so he spent 50 years in that field, most of them with the New York Daily News. Отзывы. Дополнительная информация. Где читать книги. Смартфоны/планшеты. 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Even with two suspensions, one conviction and a well-deserved reputation as baseball's biggest blowhard, at his worst was practically a saint compared to the sinner that was William Stephen Devery, the original co-owner of the New York Yankees and one of the game's biggest rascals in an era when you couldn't swing a dead bat without hitting one. Known as "Big Bill," New York's last Chief of Police was a man of distinction by title only — considering his position and the ill-gotten gains he's said to have amassed over his more than 20-year career as a civil servant, Devery was widely considered the most crooked cop the city has ever seen. Corpulent, charismatic and inherently corrupt, Devery's stubby fingers were in just about every dirty deal, kickback and bribe that went on in Manhattan's West Side, which was rife with brothels, gambling dens and illegal after-hour joints whose proprietors were more than willing to grease the proper palms to stay open. In 1903, after being drummed off the force, he and a partner, a notorious gambling hall operator named Frank J. Farrell, paid $18,000 for the Orioles of the nascent American League and shipped the franchise north, where it was renamed the New York Highlanders and would soon come to be known as the Yankees. Devery and Farrell never had a pennant to show for their 13 years of ownership — Babe Ruth, and the first of 40 American League flags, were still more than five years away — but the partners made a killing when they sold the team in 1915 for $460,000. Devery, though, soon faded into obscurity — and bankruptcy. He was $1,000 in the red when he died in the summer of 1919 at 63, and didn't live to see the infamous "Black Sox" World Series, a bribery scandal the infamous police chief would have surely appreciated. Bronx Bummers. An Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls. $9.99. $9.99. Publisher Description. Whether you love the Yankees or loathe them, even the most casual baseball fan is well versed on the team’s nearly 100-year lineage of legends that span the decades from Ruth to DiMaggio to Mantle to Jeter. Most every book on the Yankees, therefore, heralds the unparalleled winning tradition of the famed Bronx Bombers. This is not that kind of book. In Bronx Bummers: The Unofficial History of the New York Yankees’ Bad Boys, Blunders and Brawls , authors Robert Dominguez and David Hinckley shine a light on the dark side of the team’s otherwise illustrious history. In 50 lighthearted chapters, Bronx Bummers begins with the tale of the Yankees’ first colorful owners in 1903 — one was a former New York police chief widely considered the most corrupt cop in city history, the other was Manhattan's biggest owner of illegal gambling dens — and continues through the sordid exploits of some of the team’s earliest stars, including a slick-fielding first baseman run out of baseball for throwing games; a good-hitting pitcher who derailed his Hall of Fame-bound career with his brawling and boozing ways; and even the great Babe Ruth himself, who regularly led the league in HRs, RBIs and STDs. And while most baseball teams have a history of bench-clearing brawls, Dominguez and Hinckley, veteran New York City tabloid reporters, chronicle how the Yankees hold the unofficial record for most fights between teammates — not to mention the most front-office blunders. From the bad old days of the team’s origins as the Highlanders all the way to the Bronx Zoo years and beyond, Bronx Bummers divulges what really went on behind the boxscores of baseball's winningest franchise.