Baseball's Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History

Chris Donnelly

Baseball's Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 February 2010
Pages
352
ISBN
9780813546629

Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History

Chris Donnelly

Baseball’s Greatest Series details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. This division series was not simply about two teams playing five postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberry - and many others who changed the course of baseball history such as: a team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest; a manager who was literally managing for his job; and, a New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier. Chris Donnelly’s replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle’s Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players’ strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem. From Don Mattingly’s only postseason home run, which caused a near riot, to Edgar Martinez’s legendary eleventh inning series-clinching double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle’s victory. Simply stated, Baseball’s Greatest Series hits a home run.

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