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Driving Mr. Yogi

Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift

Driving Mr. Yogi( )
Author: Araton, Harvey
ISBN:978-1-4104-4733-3
Publication Date:Apr 2012
Publisher:Thorndike Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $32.99
Book Description:

It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch young players. They talk shop. They eat dinner together. They tease each other. And as every former ballplayer knows, in that routine there emerges a certain magic. Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of how a unique friendship between a pitcher and a catcher is renewed every year.

Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.8 x 8.4 x 1.3 Inches
Author Biography
Araton, Harvey (Author)
Harvey Araton is New York Times feature writer and sports columnist. Prior to working at the Times he was a sports reporter and columnist at the New York Daily News, a sports reporter for the New York Post, and he also worked at the Staten Island Advance as a sports reporter, night sports editor, city side reporter and copyboy.

Araton is the author or co-author of the books: Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gifts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012); When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks (Harper, 2011); Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home (Free Press, 2005); Alive & Kicking (When Soccer Moms Take The Field And Change Their Lives Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2001); Money Players (Inside The New NBA) (Pocket Books, 1997); The Selling of the Green: The Financial Rise and Moral Decline of the Boston Celtics, Harper Collins, 1992.

Araton's work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New York Times Magazine, GQ Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Sport Magazine, and Basketball Weekly.

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