The Bronx Zoo

Sparky Lyle, Peter Golenbock

Crown Publishers, 1979 - Sports & Recreation - 248 pages

The former New York Times bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.

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User Review  - asktheages - LibraryThing

This was recommended to me after I read Ball Four and wanted to read something similar, but I have to say, this one really didn't grab me all that much. The behind-the-scenes hijinks are probably ...

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User Review  - 5hrdrive - LibraryThing

A unique insiders look at one of the most famous teams in history, the 1978 New York Yankees in the midst of their epic chase (and eventual defeat) of the Boston Red Sox. Sparky Lyle's day-by-day ...

About the author

Peter Golenbock is a prolific sports journalist and author. He was born in New York City on July 19, 1946 and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1967 and the New York University School of Law in 1970. While at Dartmouth, he began writing about sports for The Daily Dartmouth, which led to stints with the New York Times and the Boston Globe. It was also at Dartmouth where he became friends with Robert Ariel "Red" Rolfe, the former New York Yankees third baseman and the school's athletic director. Rolfe entertained him for hours with stories of the famous Yankees teams of the 1930's, which had a profound impact on Golenbock's unintended career path. After graduating law school, he eventually landed a job in the legal department of Prentice-Hall Publishing. Surprisingly, he was able to convince the head of the trade book division to allow him to write about the Yankees. The resulting book, Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-64, became an instant bestseller, the first of many for Golenbock. Among his best-known works to follow include; The Bronx Zoo, Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Balls, with Graig Nettles, Bats, with Davey Johnson, Personal Fouls, a look at corruption in college basketball, and Teammates, a children's book about the relationship between Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. His latest work is entitled Rage: The Legend of "Baseball Bill" Denehy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bronx Zoo
• Authors: Sparky Lyle, Peter Golenbock
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, 1979
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jan 26, 2010
• ISBN: 0517537265, 9780517537268
• Length: 248 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General