162 - 0: Imagine a Yankees Perfect Season

162-0: Imagine a Yankees Perfect Season imagines that season by identifying the most memorable victory in Yankees history on every single day of the baseball calendar season, from late March to late October. Ranging from games with incredible historical significance and individual achievement to those with high drama and high stakes, this book imagines the impossible: a blemish-free Yankees season. Evocative photos, original quotes, thorough research, and engaging prose and analysis all highlight 162-0.

BUCKY DENT TO MEET FANS
Yankees fans have a chance to meet Bucky Dent when the former Yankee signs copies of 162-0: IMAGINE A PERFECT YANKEES SEASON. Dent wrote the foreword to Marty Appel's book and both Dent and Appel will be signing copies of their book at Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue in New York on May 7. For more details about the signing please refer to the offical page for 162-0: IMAGINE A PERFECT YANKEES SEASON.

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162-0: IMAGINE A YANKEES PERFECT SEASON

By Marty Appel/Foreword by Bucky Dent

 

CONTACT: Bill Ames, Triumph Books, 312.252.1248, b.ames@triumphbooks.com

 

Even the greatest baseball teams lose 30 percent or more of their games each season.  The 2009 New York Yankees dominated their division and entire league en route to the best record (103-59) in all of Major League Baseball.  They followed up an incredible regular season where they won 63.6% of the time with their 27^th World Series title.

 

But imagine, Yankees fans, a year in which the Bronx Bombers never lose a single game.  An undefeated regular season...perfection at its greatest!  Author and former Yankees PR Director Mary Appel envisions just that in his new book 162-0: Imagine a Yankees Perfect Season.

 

Complete with a foreword from Red Sox killer Bucky Dent, Appel chronicles the most memorable victories on each and every single day of the baseball calendar season, including:

 

• Mickey Mantle's Yankee debut against Boston on April 17, 1951
• Babe Ruth homering in the first-ever game played at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923
• Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak reaching 56 games in Cleveland on July 16, 1941
• Derek Jeter tying Lou Gehrig's record for most Yankees hits on September 9, 2009
• Roger Maris launching his 61^st home run to break Babe Ruth's all-time record and defeat the Red Sox on October 1, 1961
• Bucky Dent's unforgettable home run against Boston on October 2, 1978 to help the Yankees win the American League East

 

Ranging from games with incredible historical significance to great individual Yankee achievements, 162-0: Imagine a Yankees Perfect Season is a must-have for Yanks fans that reflects back on the greatest moments in New York Yankees lore and ponders the impossible...a perfect season both in the Bronx and on the road.

 

About the author: Marty Appel, former New York Yankees Public Relations Director and their Emmy Award-winning TV producer, is the author of 18 books including the New York Times best seller Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, the Yankees classic memoir Now Pitching for the Yankees, and collaborations with Tom Seaver, Bowie Kuhn, Larry King, and umpire Eric Gregg.  He runs Marty Appel Public Relations (www.AppelPR.com) out of New York City.

 

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