Everyone comes with an opinion about the Yankees. A lot more than a viewpoint in most cases, but an impression at the very least.

-From the Introduction

Love them or hate them, the New York Yankees have already been an American organization for nearly a hundred years. With their rich history and colorful cast of heroes, the Yankees by no means fail to inspire or provoke. Within this exciting compendium, some of today’s most acclaimed writers-including Pete Dexter, Colum McCann, Roy Blount Jr., Dan Barry, Jane Leavy, Charles P..Read More about Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers in the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team Pierce, J. R. Moehringer, Daniel Okrent, Frank DeFord, Expenses James, and several more-step up to the plate to take their cuts. The result is a collection of original articles as idiosyncratic and expansive as the team that has inspired them: ruminations on Babe Ruth’s gravestone, Derek Jeter’s swing, and the upper-deck vantage of the Oldest Living Yankee; dual allegiances; mortal rivalries; and every other subject that spans through the hilarious (the Yankee wife-swap of the ’70s) to the sublime (the elegance of Catfish Hunter).

Superbly written, deeply insightful, and filled with both passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a totally clean look at baseball’s most enduring franchise by a Murderers’ Row of writers mainly because stacked mainly because that of the 1927 Yanks.