Yankees Coming, Yankees Going

Lyle Spatz recently stepped down after 25 years as the chairman of SABR’s Baseball Records Committee. He is the recipient of SABR’s Bob Davids and Henry Chadwick, and Seymour Medal awards, and among the books he has written or edited are biographies of Bill Dahlen, Willie Keeler, Dixie Walker and Hugh Casey.

“complete...fascinating”—SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter; “important...an excellent index...highly readable”—Nine; “every trade, sale and promotion in Pinstripe history, including the scandalous swaps during the 1950s between the cash-strapped Athletics and their big-city New York ‘cousins’”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “covers every trade, player sale, purchase or free agent signing made by the Yankees from their first on June 10, 1903”—The SABR Bulletin; “details more than 600 transactions and sets each in its historical perspective”—Sports Collectors Digest; “thoroughly researched, entertainly presented...wonderful”—Baseballology.

• Table of ContentsPreface      I. The Early Years      II. The Teens      III. The Twenties      IV. The Thirties      V. The Forties      VI. The Fifties      VII. The Sixties      VIII. The Seventies      IX. The Eighties      X. The Nineties      Selected Bibliography      Index