Spanking the Yankees

The baseball campaign is only six months long, but hating the Yankees is a year-round affair. That's fine, because when you throw in spring training, the playoffs, and winter wheeling and dealing, it s clear that pinstripe putridness knows no season.

In what might have been the ultimate labor of authorial love, lifelong Yankees hater and baseball historian Gabriel Schechter has researched books, newspaper archives, and game and police logs to assemble more than 550 of the worst losses, most ...