Table of Contents
Introduction Rob Fleder 1
First
1 "I Have Feelings for the Yankees" Roy Blount Jr 9
2 Street Heart Sally Jenkins 20
3 Take Me Out to the Oedipal Complex Bruce McCall 25
4 The Errors of Our Ways Pete Dexter 32
5 True North Charles P. Pierce 50
Second
6 Gone Fishin' Michael Paterniti 59
7 The Queens Speech Nathaniel Rich 65
8 The Latin King Steve Wulf 79
9 The Oldest Living Yankee J. R. Moehringer 88
10 Billion-Dollar Baby James Surowiecki 98
11 Media Babe Leigh Montville 106
Third
12 A Baltimore Chop Frank DeFord 121
13 An Innocent Abroad Will Leitch 124
14 Sully and the Mick Jane Leavy 132
15 The Deal of the Century Daniel Okrent 146
16 Death by Baseball Richard Hoffer 151
17 One True Pitch Rick Telander 160
Home
18 The Long Way Home Colum McCann 175
19 Day of the Locust William Nack 181
20 My Season's Better Than Your Season Bill James 191
21 The Dog Days Dan Barry 208
22 A Bad Case of the Yankees Roger Director 216
23 Captain America Tom Verducci 222
24 Yankee Mortals Steve Rushin 234
Yankees by the Numbers
Hitting 243
Pitching 251
Honors, Awards, and Titles 262
Sabremetrics 270
Baserunning and Fielding 272
Managers, Owners, and Stadiums 277
Acknowledgments 283
The Contributors 286
