About the Author:
Dave Anderson has been a sports columnist at The New York Times since November 1971, after having been a general-assignment sports reporter for the newspaper in 1966. Mr. Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for distinguished commentary in his column, "Sports of the Times."
Murray Chass has been a sports reporter for The New York Times since he joined the newspaper in July 1969. He specializes in coverage of professional baseball--including the Yankees--and the sport's labor, legal, and financial aspects. He previously had been with the Associated Press as a general-assignment reporter and sportswriter in Pittsburgh and New York.
Robert Lipsyte returned to The Times as a sports columnist in 1991 after a twenty-year absence. He had been a sports reporter and columnist at paper for fourteen years before he left. In 1966, and again in 1996, he won Columbia University's Mike Berger Award for distinguished reporting. In 1992, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Buster Olney joined The New York Times as a sports reporter in 1997. He covered the Yankees full-time from 1998 through 2001. Previously, Mr. Olney was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun from 1995 to 1997, The San Diego Union-Tribune from 1990 to 1995, and The Nashville Banner from 1986 to 1990.
George Vecsey, after three years of covering religion for The New York Times, returned to where his journalism career began--sports. In January 1982, following the death of Red Smith, he was named a columnist, joining Dave Anderson in writing "Sports of the Times."
Stephen J. Jesselli is the award-winning Sports Photo Editor of The New York Times. Born in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, he has covered every major sporting event for the paper for more than a decade but baseball remains his passion.
From Library Journal:
To honor the team's upcoming centennial, five New York Times sportswriters (Dave Anderson, Murray Chass, Robert Lipsyte, Buster Olney, and George Vecsey) cover, in turn, the Yankees' story from the early days of Ruth through the times of Gehrig and DiMaggio to the era of Stengel, Mantle, and Maris; the Martin-Jackson feuding of the 1970s and early 1980s; and the quiet professionalism of the current Steinbrenner dynasty. But the real appeal for fans will be the many photographs from the files of the Times and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Despite two quibbles-the Yanks beat the Giants, not the Cubs, in 1937, and there is too much hero worship in the book-this one will be a winner in Yankeeland libraries and a worthy addition to larger sports collections elsewhere.
Morey Berger, St. Joseph's Hosp. Lib., Tucson, AZ
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