Hey, New York Yankees fans! Get ready to test your knowledge of your favorite team. The Ultimate New York Yankees Baseball Challenge is a seven-game World Series of entertainment, innings one through nine, starting off with rookies and ending with famous Fall Classic events, heroes, and villains. You can keep your own score, earning hits, RBIs, and homers depending on the degree of difficulty of each question. There are over 660 "at bats" and many of the most challenging questions contain clues so that anyone can take a swing at them. This is the ultimate quiz book for the New York Yankees fan!
It doesn't say on Goodreads here but this book was co-written by Scott Flatow who, in addition to being a baseball trivia maven, is my good friend and general pub quiz teammate.
This book is chock-a-block full of facts about the best ball club not called the Brooklyn Dodgers (complicated family history, don't ask) and though by it's own point system yours truly is the Yankees trivia equivalent of an underperforming Steve Sax, one thoroughly enjoyed this romp through the annals.
Spoiler: Who knew Graig Nettles was the most cite-worthy Yankees of the last half century and Tino Martinez rates almost bupkus? That was my takeaway - feel free to disagree!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
this is NOT for the casual fan, nor the 'love of the game' type like myself. There are 7 games made of 9 innings with 10 - 11 questions each. I know my yankee history fairly well, but ended up "batting" .185 (128 of 693. Pretty arcane stuff. Also difficult to read as an ebook with answers buried in the back.