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The editor, Glenn Stout, put together maybe the best anthology of Yankee writing you'll ever read. He did a similar excellent anthology for another club, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection. Strangely enough, both books appeared a year before the 2004 American League Championship Series . . . well, at least, that's when I happened to acquire my copies of each book . . .;)

The Yankee book also includes Ira Berkow's magnificent essay chronicling the ironic post-baseball deafness of Gil McDougald ("McDougald, Once a Quiet Yankee Star, Now Lives in a Silent World")---who'd taken one off the side of his head in a spring training exercise, a couple of years before his liner caught Herb Score flush in the face, causing an inner-ear fracture that led in time to McDougald's deafness (for which McDougald eventually underwent new corrective surgery, in part because of the Berkow piece).