Mike Reuther's Blog, page 14

The Yankee Years

I am finishing up reading the Yankee Years by Joe Torre during these baseball playoffs. Guess I can't get enough baseball. At any rate, it's not bad. There's a lot of interesting stuff about how the Yankees fell short of winning World Series championships through some short-sighted decision-making in the front office during Torre's later years as manager. I liked the author's summation of the 2004 playoffs when the Yanks blew their three games to nothing lead over the Red Sox. There's plenty of other stuff about some of the team's major players from the mid-nineties on. Torre comes off as the wise old uncle who knows just the right time to tell a player that things will be okay or to just wise up. Some have claimed Torre is an over-rated manager who always had the players to win. That might be true, but it's interesting to see the guy a little more up close in this book.

Write the Darn Book

Write the Darn Book by Mike Reuther is full of great advice for any aspiring author.