Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team Audiobook (Free)

Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. A lot more than an opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.

-From the Introduction

Like them or hate them, the brand new York Yankees have been an American organization for nearly a hundred years. With their rich history and colorful cast of character types, the Yankees hardly ever fail to encourage or provoke. With this interesting compendium, a few of today’s most acclaimed writers-including Pete Dexter, Colum McCann, Roy Blount Jr., Dan Barry, Jane Leavy, Charles P..Read More on the subject of Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers over the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team Pierce, J. R. Moehringer, Daniel Okrent, Frank DeFord, Expenses James, and several more-step up to the plate to take their cuts. The effect is a collection of original essays as idiosyncratic and expansive as the group that has motivated them: ruminations on Babe Ruth’s gravestone, Derek Jeter’s swing, as well as the upper-deck vantage from the Oldest Living Yankee; dual allegiances; mortal rivalries; and almost every other subject that spans from your hilarious (the Yankee wife-swap from the ’70s) towards the sublime (the elegance of Catfish Hunter).

Superbly written, deeply insightful, and full of both passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a completely clean look at baseball’s most enduring franchise by a Murderers’ Row of writers simply because stacked mainly because that of the 1927 Yanks.