The Bronx Zoo

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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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Section 2
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Section 3
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The Bronx Zoo
Sparky Lyle,Peter Golenbock
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The Bronx Zoo
Sparky Lyle,Peter Golenbock
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About the author (1979)

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

TitleThe Bronx Zoo
AuthorsSparky Lyle, Peter Golenbock
PublisherCrown Publishers, 1979
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedJan 26, 2010
ISBN0517537265, 9780517537268
Length248 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
  
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