| Yankee for Life Contributor(s): Murcer, Bobby (Author), Waggoner, Glen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061473421 ISBN-13: 9780061473425 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: "Yankee for Life" offers the story of Murcer's career with the Yankees as both a player and an award-winning broadcaster. With humor and charm, he remembers his years in pinstripes, and talks candidly about his courageous battle with brain cancer. 16-page color-photo insert. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.8" (0.55 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The final chapter of Yankee for Life, Play Ball , was unintentionally omitted from the paperback edition. We apologize for this oversight. Click here to download the missing chapter. |
Contributor Bio(s): Murcer, Bobby: - Bobby Murcer enjoyed an outstanding seventeen-year major- league career with the Yankees, Giants, and Cubs, and afterward spent twenty-five years in the Yankees broadcast booth as a play-by-play announcer. Murcer died of cancer in July 2008. The final chapter of Yankee for Life, "Play Ball!", was unintentionally omitted from the paperback edition. We apologize for this oversight. Click here to download the missing chapter. Waggoner, Glen: -Glen Waggoner, a founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, is the coauthor of Bobby Murcer's New York Times bestselling autobiography A Yankee for Life, as well as the bestsellers My Life In & Out of the Rough with John Daly and Clearing the Bases with Mike Schmidt. Waggoner was one of the founding fathers of Rotisserie League Baseball, which sparked the fantasy sports movement in America. |