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Yankee Colors

The Glory Years of the Mantle Era

Yankee Colors( )
Photographer: Newman, Marvin
Editor: Sweet, Christopher
Author: Silverman, Al
Foreword by: Berra, Yogi
ISBN:978-0-8109-9638-0
Publication Date:Mar 2009
Publisher:Abrams, Inc.
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $37.50
Book Description:

Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare and many unpublished color photographs of the Yankees from the golden age of the celebrated baseball team. Yankee Colors tells the story of the legendary period from 1949 to 1964 when New York baseball was supreme and the New York Yankees were in the World Series almost every year. Now, this glorious period of Yankees history is captured through the intimate lens of famed sports photographer Marvin Newman. He was...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.375 x 11.375 x 0.885 Inches
Book Weight:2.69 Pounds
Author Biography
Silverman, Al (Photographer)
Al Silverman was born Elwyn Harmon Silverman in Lynn, Massachusetts on April 12, 1926. After graduating from Boston University and serving stateside in the Navy during World War II, he became a freelance writer for various magazines including Sport. In 1960, he became editor in chief of Sport. In 1972, he joined the Book-of-the-Month Club mail-order concern as executive vice president and editorial director. He spent 16 years there and became president and later chief executive before joining Viking Books as a general editor.

He wrote several books including Football and the Single Man written with Paul Hornung; It's Not Over 'Til It's Over: Stories Behind the Most Magnificent, Heart-Stopping Miracles of Our Time; and The Time of Their Lives. I Am Third written with Gale Sayers on was adapted into the television movie Brian's Song in 1971. The movie won the 1972 Emmy Award for outstanding single program. Silverman died on March 10, 2019 at the age of 92.

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