Verducci’s…I Mean Torre’s Book "The Yankee Years"

I got through a big chunk of The Yankee Years over the weekend and it’s not at all what the Post would have us believe.

It’s really a Tom Verducci book. There is a great sidebar chapter about steroids and another about the Red Sox coming of age.

The book quotes Torre at length, but it might as well say “Tom Verducci with David Cone, Mike Mussina and Joe Torre.” Cone gives the players perspective for the first half, and then Mussina for the post-Dynasty years.

This book is right there with Summer of ’49 for great baseball books. You don’t have to be a Yankee fan to relive all those post-seasons especially 2001.

Grab it.