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The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees Paperback - 2005

by Sparky Lyle; Peter Golenbock

The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.


From the publisher

This bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After being voted the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner, Sparky Lyle was rewarded for his efforts by being benched. The Yankees, a leader of free agency, signed Goose Gossage as their closer. Things only went downhill from there and the 1978 season turned out to be one of controversy, firings, fights and acrimony. In short, it was a zoo.

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A group of businessmen and I were discussing whether I should invest some money in a shopping center in Kentucky when the phone in my New Jersey home rang.

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  • Title The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees
  • Author Sparky Lyle; Peter Golenbock
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Triumph Books (IL), Chicago
  • Date March 2005
  • ISBN 9781572437159 / 1572437154
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.28 x 0.73 in (23.32 x 15.95 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 136

About the author

Sparky Lyle is a former left-handed relief pitcher who spent 16 seasons in Major League Baseball. A three-time All-Star, he won the American League Cy Young Award in 1977. He was most famous for coauthoring The Bronx Zoo, a 1979 tell-all book that chronicled the dissension within the Yankees in its World Series Championship seasons of 1977 and 1978. Peter Golenbock is a sports journalist and author.
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