"JOE TORRE WAS THE FOURTH CHOICE": FIRST EDITION OF THE YANKEE YEARS, SIGNED BY TORRE

TORRE, Joe and VERDUCCI, Tom. The Yankee Years. New York et al.: Doubleday, (2009). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $175.

First edition of Torre’s memoir of his triumphant and tumultuous tenure as manager of the New York Yankees, boldly signed by him on the half title.

The New York Yankees won four World Series between 1996 and 2000, "a resolute band of brothers, who put collective play above individual stats… The steady hand behind this team, of course, was Joe Torre, a manager whose calm, self-possessed style not only made him a foil to the Yankees' volatile principal owner, George Steinbrenner, but also enabled him to steer the team gracefully through the pressure cooker of playing in the Big Apple and the postseason… Torre and the Sports Illustrated writer Tom Verducci… provide a lively chronicle of that historic era" (New York Times). With 24 pages of color photographs.

A fine signed copy.