Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Urban Legends
POPULAR MYTHS
1. The Truth about Ruth
Absolutely Flabulous • Back to Black • The Negro Leaguers • ‘The House Built For Ruth’ • The Big Sticks • The Babe & The Kid • Babe Ruth & Baby Ruth • The Sultanate • The Pinstripery • Train in Vain • Managing • Curses! • ‘The Most Complete Ballplayer of All Time’
2. ‘Yankee Stadium is ‘The House that Ruth Built’’
3. Four Facts and One Theory on Jake Ruppert
The Father of Yankee Style • The Higher League • ‘Ruppert Park’ • Don’t Break Up the Yankees • Separated at Birth?
4. Wally Pipp’s ‘Headache’
5. Getting Tough with the '27 Yankees
6. That Pirates / Scary Batting Practice Story
7. ‘Babe Ruth Called His Shot in the ’32 World Series’
8. ‘Cal Ripken ~ Lou Gehrig’
9. What Really Happened on Lou Gehrig Day
10. Mickey Myths
Three To 1st • The 565-Foot, Tape-Measure Home Run • The Rookie Card That Wasn’t
11. DiMaggio 24, Mantle 0
12. ‘Yogi-ism’s’ (Pt. 1)
13. ‘Yogi-ism’s’ (Pt. 2)
14. The Copa Fight & Billy Martin’s Exile
15. ‘Casey Stengel Screwed Up the 1960 World Series’
16. ‘Casey Stengel was a Clown’
17. Reel Life vs. Real Life- The Maris of ‘61*’ vs. the Maris of ’61
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19. “The Most Hallowed Record in Sports”
20. ‘Steinbrenner Made His Money the Old-Fashioned Way- He Inherited It’
21. ‘And Then Steinbrenner Fired . . .’
22. ‘Mr. October’ (Pt. 1)
23. ‘Mr. October’ (Pt. 2)
24. Jax Facts
The 160 IQ • ‘For Four F---in’ Pages?!’ • ‘Three Swings, Three Home Runs’ • ‘Winning Teams Tend to Follow Me Around’ • ‘One of My Biggest Mistakes . . .’ • Reggie Jackson, Yankee
25. ‘Bucky Dent’s Homer Was a Big Deal’
26. ‘The ’79 Yankees Collapsed After Thurman Died’
27. ‘The Yankees were Pedro’s Daddy’
28. ‘Derek Jeter, Clutch Superstar’ (Pt. 1)
29. ‘Derek Jeter, Clutch Superstar’ (Pt. 2)
30. JeterLeader
31. Joe Torre’s Insult
32. ‘Yankee Stadium, 1923-2008’
33. ‘Yankee Imperialism’
34. Misc. Myths
The Façade • Gehrig in the Shadows • Even Better than the Real Thing • ‘Gordon Mantle’ • Mr. Kekich & Mrs. Peterson and Mr. Peterson & Mrs. Kekich • ‘The 1975 Red Sox Saved Baseball’ • Billy Martin’s Yankee Pride • Don’t Call Me Lightnin’ • ‘Mr. May’ • ‘A Better BASEBALL Player’ • The Most Incredible Yankee Story of All Time • Mystique & Aura • The Ex Files • Don Zimmer, Metalhead • ‘Mr. November’
THE OVER- / UNDER-
35. The Most Over-rated Yankees of All Time
Don Mattingly, 1B • Bobby Richardson, 2B • Derek Jeter, SS • Graig Nettles, 3B • Paul O’Neill, OF • Bobby Murcer, OF • Roger Maris, OF • Waite Hoyt, P • Ralph Houk, Manager • Joe DiMaggio, Team Leader • Billy Crystal, SuperFan
36. The Most Over-rated Yankee Lineup of All Time
37. The Most Under-rated Yankees of All Time
Johnny Blanchard, C • Wally Pipp, 1B • Joe Gordon, 2B • Gil McDougald, SS • Clete Boyer, 3B • George Selkirk, OF • Charlie Keller, OF • Roy White, OF • Spud Chandler, P • Yogi Berra, Manager • Whitey Ford, Team Leader • George Costanza, Assistant to the Traveling Secretary
38. The Most Under-rated Yankee Lineup of All Time
WHO SHOULD HAVE WON WHAT
39. The Yankees’ True Trophy Case
THE YES-MEN
40. What They Left Out of the Yankee-ographies
CONCLUSION
The N.Y. Yankees & U.S. Steel
‘The Truth About Ruth (And More):
Behind the New York Yankees’
Most Popular Myths, Legends, and Lore’
Triumph Books • On-Sale Date: March 11, 2009 • 224 pages
$11.53 • ISBN-13: 978-1-6007-8192-6
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