Publisher Description
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.
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“So much more than a baseball story…Bob Klapisch and Paul Solotaroff marry access, insight and humor with a critical eye that reveals a never-before-seen side of a franchise in the midst of sweeping changes.”
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Jeff Passan, ESPN insider and bestselling author of The Arm
About the Authors
Bob Klapisch has covered baseball for the New York Post and New York Daily News 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 Five” awards in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors contest and appears regularly on the MLB Network. A graduate of Columbia University, where he played varsity baseball, Klapisch continues to pitch in the semiprofessional Metropolitan League in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he and his family live.
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 Reed Hospital; and has written a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were doing life without parole in state prisons. Solotaroff is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award finalist and the winner of two Genesis Awards. Six of his earlier stories were optioned for television dramas or films, including “Original Gangster,” and “The Fixer.” This year, four of his stories will be reborn as television series or documentaries on Netflix, Showtime, the USA network, and Facebook View.