The Men Who Made the Yankees

<p>W. Nikola-Lisa explores a fascinating corner of baseball history in <em>The Men Who Made the Yankees</em> which traces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankees’ first world championship title in 1923. Less a history of players <em>The Men Who Made the Yankees</em> focuses on a handful of powerful club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League team in New York City. A major league baseball enthusiast from a young age Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of <em>Dear Frank: Babe Ruth the Red Sox and the Great War</em> a work of historical fiction set in Boston during the waning days of the first world war.</p>