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My Team: Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball
Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson—or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless hours debating, and My Team will provide more fuel for the fire as former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry Dierker shares his opinions on who would make the cut for the ultimate Dream Team.
Choosing from the greatest players he has seen in his four decades in the major leagues, Dierker selects twenty-five players for My Team and another twenty-five for the opposition, the Underdogs. All are players that Dierker has played with or against or watched in his years as player, coach, manager, and commentator. Each athlete must have played at least ten years in the major leagues to qualify, and players are judged on their ten best seasons. So is it possible to select two teams comprised of outstanding ballplayers from the past forty years and not have room for Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, or Cal Ripken Jr.? Dierker's choices may be unorthodox, but that's part of the fun.
My Team may start more controversies than it settles, but Dierker's insights, insider anecdotes, and passion for the game will be irresistible to true baseball fans.
Choosing from the greatest players he has seen in his four decades in the major leagues, Dierker selects twenty-five players for My Team and another twenty-five for the opposition, the Underdogs. All are players that Dierker has played with or against or watched in his years as player, coach, manager, and commentator. Each athlete must have played at least ten years in the major leagues to qualify, and players are judged on their ten best seasons. So is it possible to select two teams comprised of outstanding ballplayers from the past forty years and not have room for Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, or Cal Ripken Jr.? Dierker's choices may be unorthodox, but that's part of the fun.
My Team may start more controversies than it settles, but Dierker's insights, insider anecdotes, and passion for the game will be irresistible to true baseball fans.
- GenresBaseball
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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December 14, 2023
Exemplary hot stove fodder. I've been a fan of Larry Dierker since listening to him call Astros games when I was a kid and respect him as a great baseball guy. The task of putting together the ultimate baseball team is a daunting one, but Dierker with logic, statistical analysis, and at times, gut feeling. Whether you agree with his choices or not (I found most difficult to argue against), it will make you think. I remember in the 1980s the Baseball Almanac described itself as the all-time argument settler. If so, this may be the all-time argument starter. Perfect for sitting around the hot stove counting down the days to Spring Training.
November 30, 2012
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