Veteran sportswriter Ross Newhan revisits the bittersweet memoir of the team that owner Gene Autry pulled up from its bootstraps long enough to savor victoryand then see it all come crashing down. Peppered with stories of baseball luminaries such as Reggie Jackson, and Nolan Ryan. The Anaheim Angels brings a stellar cast of baseball greats alive.
Written before the Angels won the 2002 World Series, but the bad management decisions, injuries, elite players stuck on bad teams, and general malaise that Newhan chronicles continue to this day. 30 teams, 30 books #6