Their names conjure up the golden era of New York Yankees history and the sport of baseball itself; names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt, and Herb Pennock. Other baseball immortals playing against these Yankee greats in the roaring twenties were future Hall-of-Famers Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Jimmy Foxx, Tris Speaker, Mickey Cochrane, Bucky Harris, Red Faber, and others.

The '27 Yankees is a baseball book for all fans of the national pastime. It is the story of the most legendary and revered team in the annals of the game: the 1927 New York Yankees, whose magical name even today evokes the standard of excellence in America's most treasured sport.




Kirkus Discoveries
"Baseball aficionados don't agree on much. But nearly all will assent to the following: The 1927 Yankees were the greatest collection of ball players ever to lace up their spikes and take the field. After all, this was the team whose batting order earned the infamous nickname "Murderers' Row" for its historic exploits . . . . Glueckstein has carefully pieced together the story of the season by recapping newspaper articles [and other sources] published at that time. Other comments by the reviewer of The '27 Yankees: "the book is rich in minutia . . . an enormous amount of data . . . intriguing vignettes about the individual players . . . fascinating for statisticians and baseball historians."