Cover
Also by Marty Appel
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1: Mail Call
Chapter 2: Kansas City
Chapter 3: Lunatic Beginning
Chapter 4: Aurora, Illinois
Chapter 5: Casey of Ebbets Field
Chapter 6: The Grapefruit from the Sky
Chapter 7: Good Player? Bad Player?
Chapter 8: A Pennant for Uncle Robbie
Chapter 9: The Pirates and the Phillies
Chapter 10: McGraw and the Giants
Chapter 11: World Series Heroics
Chapter 12: Edna Lawson
Chapter 13: Managing in the Minors
Chapter 14: Back to Brooklyn
Chapter 15: Death of Koenecke
Chapter 16: Oil!
Chapter 17: Crossing Kenmore Square
Chapter 18: Milwaukee and K.C.
Chapter 19: Oakland
Part Two
Chapter 20: The Yankees Beckon
Chapter 21: “I Owe It to Myself”
Chapter 22: DiMaggio and Mr. Berra
Chapter 23: Whitey and Billy
Chapter 24: The Mick
Chapter 25: Taking on Jackie Robinson
Chapter 26: Five Straight
Chapter 27: October Off
Chapter 28: Elston Howard
Chapter 29: One Last Subway Series
Chapter 30: Trading Billy Martin
Chapter 31: Dazzling Congress
Chapter 32: Third-Place Yankees?
Chapter 33: A Pebble at Shortstop
Chapter 34: Fired!
Chapter 35: Summer in Glendale
Part Three
Chapter 36: Selling the Amazin’ Mets
Chapter 37: Worst Team in History
Chapter 38: Closing the Polo Grounds
Chapter 39: Shea Stadium
Chapter 40: A Slip and a Fall
Part Four
Chapter 41: Cooperstown
Chapter 42: An Active Retirement
Chapter 43: Saying Goodbye
Chapter 44: Legacy
Appendix 1: Congressional Record, July 9, 1958
Appendix 2: Career Statistics
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
Illustrations