Diamond in the Bronx Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

"By way of background to baseball's present crisis, THE DIAMOND IN THE BRONX is usefully instructive. It is a somewhat peculiar book -- a mixture of political science, sociology, economics and sportswriting -- but it shows how the Yankees have reached their present eminence not merely because of developments inside the game that they have turned to their advantage but also because of the intimate relationship they have enjoyed for close to a century with the political powers of New York, mostly those in city hall but those in the statehouse as well.Sullivan, Neil J. is the author of 'Diamond in the Bronx Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York' with ISBN 9780195157963 and ISBN 0195157966.