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The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees
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.
Customer Reviews:
Great Read . .
By Canuck in WA - March 22, 2006Though I grew up a total Yankee Hater (and was 15 yrs old when this season took place), the book ranks right up there with "Thin Ice - A Season in Hell with the New York Rangers" as a top quality read for a baseball focus. Probably the best thing about this book is how Golenbock and Lyle are able to put a real personal touch to some of the Yanks that played on that team that year. Nettles is a total cut-up, Munson is a real gamer, Jackson is a media hog, Billy Martin is part psychotic and part genius, and Ron Guidry is the quiet, yet dominating athlete that just goes out and does his job. Some of the more amusing antedotes are the ones involving Fritz Peterson in Lyle's earlier days, and Rawley Eastwick's escapades in the present day. Previous reviews talk about Lyle being "whiny", and I can agree with that perception. It's kind of hard to relate to someone complaining about his stature in life as a professional baseball player, when Joe Schmoe is out there trying to eeke out a... read more
A Great Read, But Golenbock Is A Lazy Author
By County Lineman - October 14, 2006First, the problems with the reprint of the best-seller that opened up a wealth of first-person accounts of those wild years with the Yankees:
* Sparky Lyle was not in favor of having the book reissued;
* There is not any new material and the typographical mistakes remain from the first edition;
* Unless you followed baseball in the 1970s or have an appreciation of baseball history, you may have trouble following the personalities and situations chronicled.
My rating is based on the controversy that exploded surrounding Lyle's candid accounts of the crazy 1978 season. Lyle does not shy away from the seemingly daily madness of The Boss, Reggie, Billy, and the closer wars of Goose and the co-author. It makes the stuff that swirled around the 2006 Yankees seem like agate type for the tabloids.
In the spring, Peter Golenbock was pushing the book pretty hard on local and national sports talk shows. I wish he would have done more than... read more
Pomp and Circumstance at Yankee Stadium
By Sugafoot - January 30, 2011Sparky Lyle was one of the greatest relief pitchers in the history of baseball, and he would always make his entry from the bullpen accompanied by the song "pomp and circumstance." In this tell all memoir he describes the inner workings of the Yankee dynasty of the late 70's, how Reggie Jackson was a glory hound and pathological liar. And the managerial blunders of Yankee owner George Steinbrenner. This is baseball from the inside.
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