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Halberstam was born not far from Yankee Stadium, but The Teammates (Hyperion; 217 pages) deals not with the Bronx Bombers but with their eternal archrivals, the Boston Red Sox and not so much with their playing careers as with the diamond-shape holes baseball left in their lives when they left the game. Halberstam, whose previous subjects include Vietnam and Bill Clinton, focuses on the four players who formed the core of a powerhouse Boston lineup in the 1940s: Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio (kid brother to Joltin' Joe) and the troubled, tyrannical genius Ted Williams, the last...
Baseball is often held up as a microcosm of or a metaphor for America, and it's rarely true--but in 1978, in the Bronx, it was. A turbulent country was reflected in the tempestuous Yankees locker room, where racial tension crackled, where women sportswriters were allowed for the first time and where the first wave of baseball's free agents--led by two Yankees hurlers, Catfish Hunter, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, and Andy Messersmith--were pulling down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin...
...fresh perspective of a new era; or 3) they're being given a bold new interpretation. For the first, how about putting together a couple of the terrific one-acts that Israel Horovitz and Terrence McNally were turning out in the 1960s and '70s (The Indian Wants the Bronx; Next)? For the second, with Susan Stroman and Twyla Tharp reinvigorating Broadway dance, what better time for a new West Side Story? For the third, well, let's just say if anybody is thinking of bringing back Death of a Salesman, it had damned well better star Eminem...
...Yankees make it easy to be a fan. And I wasn’t ready to give up being on the side of the winners. But after this year’s arrogance led to a banal post-season, I became a little more hesitant about feeling the Bronx Bomber love. Then George Steinbrenner made it clear that he would be back to boss Joe Torre around in the bullpen, which has historically meant the demise of the Yankees. The corporate nature of the team was becoming even more sickening, especially after the multi-million dollar cablevision deal...
...dressed myself as a “man,” following the advice of Bronx resident Laura Starecheski, a freelance journalist who recently attended a drag king workshop led by New York-based performance artist Diane Torr, the self-proclaimed “drag king ambassador to the world.” The plan is to go around campus as I always do, and to register how my shift in gender identity changes the way people interact with...