Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball's Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies - Hardcover

Bill Madden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582615292 ISBN 13: 9781582615295

Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC, 2004

Synopsis

The famed "New York Daily News baseball writer collects his most memorable stories about stunning upsets, miraculous victories, scandals, record-setters, Hall of Famers, and more.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Bill Madden joined the Daily News in 1978 after nine years at United Press International where he covered baseball, track and field and Olympics. He was the Daily News' Yankee beat writer from 1980-88 before becoming the News' national baseball columnist. In his 25 years with the News, Madden has broken numerous major baseball stories. He has written a number of books on baseball, including Damned Yankees in collaboration with Moss Klein of the Newark Star-Ledger and Don Zimmer's best-selling autobiography, Zim: A Baseball Life.

In his 25 years covering baseball for the Daily News, Bill Madden has seen it all—from trades to tirades, heroes to hucksters, and champions to cellar dwellers. He broke the story when baseball said good-bye to commissioner Fay Vincent in 1992 and predicted in 2001 that A-Rod would only stay with Texas for three years before jumping ship for a contender and being scooped up by, of all teams, the Yankees. He followed Joe Torre's Yankees as they won an unprecedented four world champ-ionships and six pennants in eight years!

Join Madden on his quest for doomed pitching legend Steve Dalkowski and celebrate its happy ending. Take a road trip to Cooperstown and relive the heartwarming and humorous Hall of Fame inductions of "Mr. October" Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver, Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto, and other baseball legends. Go to Mickey Mantle’s fantasy camp, where Madden interviewed The Mick just before his death. Get personal with His Bossness, George Steinbrenner, and celebrate Yogi Berra’s 70th birthday with some Yogi-isms.

Remember Dwight Gooden’s no-hitter? David Wells’s perfect game? Don Larsen’s? Bill Madden was there for them all. He was also there when we said our sad good-byes to friends and legends such as Catfish Hunter, Steady Eddie Lopat, Bob Lemon, Mel Allen and Joe DiMaggio. His colorful interview with scout Uncle Hughie Alexander and his poignant column about the Braves players who pitched in to help the family of murdered replacement player David Shotkowski carried us through the dark days of the 1994 strike and helped remind us why we love baseball.

Bill Madden’s most intriguing, heartwarming, controversial and memorable Daily News columns—a baseball road map for the last quarter-century—come together in Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball’s Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies, proving that the truth, especially in the world of professional baseball, is often stranger than fiction—and usually more entertaining.

About the Author:

Don Zimmer's baseball career has spanned fifty-six years and seven decades. Zimmer went from top prospect to near tragedy after a beaning in the minor leagues, but he fought back to put together a prolific baseball career. He is the author of "Zim-A Baseball Life," and he lives in Treasure Island, Florida.
Bill Madden is an award-winning columnist with the New York "Daily News" who has covered baseball for thirty-five years and has been a national baseball columnist since 1988. He is the author of" Pride of October" and coauthor of "Damned Yankees" and, with Don Zimmer, "Zim-A Baseball Life," He has known Zimmer for more than twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582615292
• ISBN 13: 9781582615295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328