Baseball's Greatest Series : : Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History / / Chris Donnelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Donnelly, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 10
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Don-nie Base-ball --; 2. Winless in Seattle --; 3. Bronx Bummers --; 4. Strike --; 5. Baseball Returns --; 6. Game 1: The Bronx, Baseball, and Beer Bottles --; 7. Game 2: A Classic in the Bronx --; 8. Game 3: Playoff Baseball in Seattle --; 9. Game 4: Saint Edgar --; 10. Game 5: Warriors, Heroes, and Heartbreak --; 11. Deconstructing the Yankees --; 12. Safeco Is Born --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813549132; 9783110688610
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813549132
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chris Donnelly.

Baseball's Greatest Series details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. This division series was not simply about two teams playing five postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberryùand many others who changed the course of baseball history . . . A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest A manager who was literally managing for his job A New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier Chris Donnelly's replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle's Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem. From Don Mattingly's only postseason home run, which caused a near riot, to Edgar Martinez's legendary eleventh inning series-clinching double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle's victory. Simply stated, Baseball's Greatest Series hits a home run.