Inside The Empire, Bob Klapisch
Inside The Empire, Bob Klapisch
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Inside The Empire
The True Power Behind the New York Yankees

Author: Bob Klapisch, Paul Solotaroff

Narrator: Bob Klapisch

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/01/2019

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world
 
Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “straight-from-the-gut” truth from Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia—even Hal Steinbrenner and Randy Levine—and many more.
 
This is baseball’s version of HBO’s award-winning NFL series “Hard Knocks.” Klapisch and Solotaroff take you deep into the Yankees clubhouse, their dugout, and the front office and pull back the curtain so that every fan can see what really goes on.

Bottom line? You may think you know everything about the storied franchise of the New York Yankees and what makes them tick. But Inside the Empire will set the record straight, and drop bombshells about iconic figures along the way. There’s never been a baseball book quite like it.

About Bob Klapisch

BOB KLAPISCH has covered baseball for the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Bergen Record as well as ESPN, FOX Sports and USA Today. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. Klapisch has won several Top-5 awards in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors contest and appears regularly on MLB Network. A graduate of Columbia University, where he played varsity baseball, Klapisch continues to pitch in the semi-professional Metropolitan League in Bergen County. He and his family live in Westwood, NJ.

About Paul Solotaroff

PAUL SOLOTAROFF has been a senior writer at Rolling Stone for twenty-five years (and at Men’s Journal for almost twenty). He covered the NFL concussion scandal, including the Aaron Hernandez story, was the first to report the horror-show conditions at Walter Reade Hospital, and has written a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were doing life without parole in state prisons. Winner of two Genesis Awards and more than a half-dozen selections to the Best American Sports Writing anthologies, Solotaroff is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award finalist. Six of his earlier stories were optioned for TV dramas or films, including “Original Gangster,” “The Fixer,” “Living the Vida Macho,” “Not Guilty,” and “The Gangster in the Huddle.” This year, four of his stories will be reborn as TV series or prestige documentaries on Netflix, Showtime, the USA network, and Facebook View.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on April 28, 2019

Some parts of this book are excellent. I especially liked the chapter "Night School" which focused on how the Yankees acculturate their Third World prospects. (Example: have them watch Friends re-runs to help them with English). The opening chapters of the book are also first rate, as the authors di......more

Goodreads review by Rich on April 30, 2019

This book was INSUFFERABLE. It has a few good insights about player development but wastes the rest of its pages recapping the 2018 season (if you just read this you’d never know that team won 100 games), regurgitating tired criticisms and whining about strikeouts, bloggers, millennials and whatever......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 05, 2019

I have been on a quest to read all of the Pulitzer Prize novels, starting with the newest and working my way back. After 43 I needed something light, and this served that need. I picked up this book after hearing one of the authors on the Jim Rome show. An entertaining read, but one of this nature i......more

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