I liked it. I finished reading it and couldn't believe I was done. I wish it had gone more in depth.
I got the sense that Bill Cleary was interviewing himself. The questions seemed to anticipate the relevance of the answers a little too much. Also, I'm not sure what they were expecting the Yankees' web site to say about Devery's criminal background. There doesn't seem to be anything explicitly illegal in his acquisition or operation of the club -- just some implicit, seemingly unprovable assumptions that he got kickbacks from the construction of Hilltop. That he was involved in the Tammany Hall machine seems at best tangential to the ballclub, and not especially suitable for a timeline format that is pretty concise in its notes. The story is good, though.
Interesting read but i too wish it had been more in depth. But, any article about the Yankee's is worth a look as long as it's factual
Ken Burns, where are you?
What everybody else said. Nice little tidbit.
This just goes to show you that when the Yankees were called the Evil Empire, they weren't too far off. More like a Crime Empire or maybe Syndicate. I take it that's why they have (pin)stripes on their uniforms, to make it look like prison uniforms but with their numbers on the back instead of the front. Just a thought.
GO TIGERS
Cut the shit.
This is some of the obscure history that makes baseball so interesting. It only adds to the Yankee mystique. Great post!
This is off topic but I just heard on the east coast feed of CBS that Yankee Pitcher Cory Lidle was in the plane that crashed in Manhatten this afternoon.
They didn't say for sure it was him, pending notification of next of kin, but all things point to him being on the plane and killed in the crash along with an instructor. His passport was found on the street below the crash. Very sad, brings back memories of when Thurman Munson died in his plane.
Discussion of the Lidle crash can be found here.
