{"product_id":"baseballs-greatest-series-chris-donnelly-9780813546629","title":"Baseball's Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History","description":"\u003ci\u003eBaseball's Greatest Series\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eThis 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003eA team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest\u003cbr\u003eA manager who was literally managing for his job\u003cbr\u003eA New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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, \u003ci\u003eBaseball's Greatest Series\u003c\/i\u003e hits a home run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Donnelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813546621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813546629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rivergate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2009","brand":"Chris Donnelly","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078123024639,"sku":"9780813546629","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6912e228-c71f-4c6a-aec4-2c04020ec3f7.jpg?v=1685473669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baseballs-greatest-series-chris-donnelly-9780813546629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}