TakeHimDowntown.com » Books http://takehimdowntown.com A Web site for baseball fans (especially Yankee fans) Sat, 19 May 2012 05:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2012 Yankees Yearly, Yeah! http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/2012-yankees-yearly-yeah/ http://takehimdowntown.com/non-baseball-happenings/2012-yankees-yearly-yeah/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:41:25 +0000 Dan McCourt http://takehimdowntown.com/?p=5730 The team that brought you the Yankees Annual (and before that Bombers Broadside) now brings you the newly revamped YANKEES YEARLY! With all the features that fans of the world’s greatest baseball team have come to love and crave every new season, including our Top Prospects List, Team Roster Preview, interviews with current players, former players, and up-and-coming prospects, analyses of the lineup and team strengths, and great historical articles.

The 2012 edition features: * Robinson Cano

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(John Wiley & Sons, 366 pages)

Bronx, N.Y., April 15, 2009 — You can almost sympathize with author Peter Golenbock when reading his just published biography of the Yankee owner titled George (John Wiley & Sons, 366 pages). In the preface, he shares with us that he was always a diehard Yankee fan, and that he was given access to the Yankee archives while doing research for his first book, Dynasty, a look at

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