NEW YORK POST JOEL SHERMAN SERIES

He has returned to make four short starts and one relief appearance. Duffy missed more than a month from May into June with a forearm strain. One player that executives view as likely to be traded in the next few weeks is Royals lefty Danny Duffy - as long as he is healthy. But according to New York Post reporter Joel Sherman, executives expect the 32-year old lefty to be traded this month. They donвЂ™t have too many attractive players others teams would want that the Royals would actually be willing to part with, but one name that could garner interest is left-handed pitcher Danny Duffy.Дuffy has stated his desire to stay with the Royals, and now that he has ten years of service time, he can veto any trade. Readers will relive Joe TorreВ’s navigation from Clueless Joe to Champagne Joe in a year when he lost one brother to a stroke and another brother received a heart transplant on the eve of a Yankee title see Dwight GoodenВ—plucked off a drug scrap heap, along with Darryl StrawberryВ—improbably throw a no-hitter just hours before his father underwent heart bypass surgery watch the homegrown talent of Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera embody the poise and professionalism known as the 'Yankee Way' chronicle Tino MartinezВ’s daunting task of replacing Yankee great Don Mattingly honor long-time GM Gene Michael for a string of astounding trades and thrill to unexpected heroes, such as club-footed reliever Jim Mecir throwing the most important pitch of the season, Jim Leyritz taking the most important swing, and Jeffrey Maier, a twelve-year-old from New Jersey, making the biggest catch.The trade deadline is just over two weeks away, and with the Royals in complete freefall, they are likely to be sellers at the deadline. It also shows how the traits developed in 1996В—late-game grace and selfless sacrificeВ—formed the DNA for four titles in five years, thus launching the YankeesВ’ most recent dynasty. The book will be a ten-year remembrance and celebration of the 1996 championship campaign, which was part opera and part Oprah, a mixture of hardball and cornball, and a blend of a season on the brink and a season in the sun.

NEW YORK POST JOEL SHERMAN SERIES

In Birth of a Dynasty (Rodale, Spring 2006), Sherman details one of the most amazing seasons in Yankees history: the 1996 championship team that defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-2 in the World Series after losing the first two games at home. Sherman has been a Hall-of-Fame voter since 1998. He has served on several national committees for the BBWAA, including the one that redesigned the voting structure for the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee. Sherman was chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America from 1997 to 1998 after serving as vice chairman the previous two years. He has written freelance articles for many publications, including ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and New York magazine. He also has been a regular contributor to MSG NetworkВ’s Angles and Sports Desk, ESPNВ’s Outside the Lines, and Fox News. Besides his regular column in the Post, Sherman has been a weekly staple during the baseball season on New York OneВ’s nightly sports show, The Last Word, for the past seven years. He joined the New York Post in February 1989, served as the beat writer for the Yankees from 1989 to 1995 and as the baseball columnist ever since. Joel Sherman began working at United Press International in 1984, a year before he graduated from New York University with a B.A.

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