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Appel mentioned Marilyn Monroe.
Yogi, I have to know every detail about this. Tell me everything about that evening," Appel said. That night we got eight. Spinning the News for Mickey, Billy and George" Total Sports Illustrated in a most rare intimate look at baseball's most famous team from inside their sanctum. Appel started his career with the Yankees at age 19, answering Mickey Mantle's fan mail, stayed 10 years, moved through jobs in Bowie Kuhn's office and the Atlanta Olympic Committee, opened his own PR business and stayed loyal and loving to the Yankees forever.
Now he has a chance to look back and flesh out the memories and the moments of Yankee history through the team's ugliest decade into its resurrection. Do you know the Yankees finished tenth in just before Appel arrived and he wouldn't leave until they became the Yankees again with their first World Series win in 15 years in ? Appel's book is about the best thing ever written by an insider about outside the Yankee lines.
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It is not about home runs and strikeouts, Hall of Fame hitters and knockdown pitchers. It is about the megalomania of George Steinbrenner and the paranoia of Billy Martin. If a 50 buck ticket gets you a good seat today behind home plate for a look at Roger Clemens at his meanest and Bernie Williams at his finest, just 25 bucks for this book will get you in the movies with Mantle.
At 52, at the top of his writing game, Appel can still roll back the years for wonderful anecdotes about the young and the restless among even current Yankees. Willie Randolph came to the Yankees in He is the third base coach now under Joe Torre and heir apparent to the managerial job if Torre ever gives it up. Appel describes how the kid from Brooklyn, after 30 big league games with Pittsburgh where he wore uniform number 30, wanted that number with the Yankees.
Mel Stottlemyre had worn number 30 and had been a World Series star in and team pitching leader for a decade. It had been unused out of respect to Stottlemyre's Yankee standing.
Randolph insisted he didn't know Stottlemyre's name, that no one had the uniform now and that he wore 30 in Pittsburgh and wanted it in New York. Take a look at the Yankees as they line up for their next World Series picture. Pitching coach Stottlemyre wears 34 and Randolph still hangs on to Only an insider like Appel could make that kind of gossip breathe.
There was an old sportswriting legend about Ty Cobb. Jack Mann of New York's Newsday was called to write Cobb's obituary when the game's highest average hitter died in Mann told his editor, "The only difference now is he is a dead prick. You could count Munson's friends among the press on one finger. Appel was his PR man, his pal and his biographer. He wrote a damn good book about Thurman and portrayed him as a misunderstood guy.
Father problems, you know. Anyway, Appel became a carrier of the Munson legend through the book and his activities with a charity started in Munson's name. Appel moderated a memorial tribute to Munson at Yogi's Museum, August 2, , the 20th anniversary of his death, caused in John Kennedy style by flying a plane he really couldn't handle. Louder cheers are never heard in the Stadium than when Munson's Yankee time is captured on the ball park's huge screen. Appel made it happen.
He made Thurman Munson into a lovable guy. A tear usually runs down my cheek when I watch the damn thing and I hated the guy.
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Appel's job was to keep the Yankees in the news. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Pages with related products. With a new chapter bringing the story up-to-date, as well as changes and milestones in the game he loves, Marty Appel paints a hilarious and poignant portrait of the Yankees. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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And given the team's high profile, that task was rarely difficult, sometimes disastrous, and often gratifying. Hardcover , pages. Spinning the News for Mickey, Billy, and George.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Now Pitching for the Yankees , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Now Pitching for the Yankees. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 28, Mike rated it it was ok Shelves: Appel is a great storyteller and adds some interesting perspectives to the transfer of the yankees from CBS to steinbrenner.
Jul 29, B rated it liked it Shelves: Some of the anecdotes about baseball are interesting. Much of the personal stuff is not super-exciting, although I guess it's useful to know how unexciting it is. Wiley Munsey rated it really liked it Feb 19, Tom rated it it was amazing Oct 08, Dave Jordan rated it it was amazing Jul 07, Mike rated it it was amazing Mar 24, Feb 27, Jeff rated it liked it.
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