New York Sports magazine asked Leventhal to submit the editors' picks for the five best pieces of Yankees writing of all time. "It's always a little tricky to choose the five 'best' writings about the Yankees," explains Leventhal, "since this rich tradition encompasses works that are great for their literary merit, those that are great in illuminating the team's history, and those that are great for the impact they had, either on the game itself or on baseball literature. Our choices include a bit of each." Those choices - all of which are excerpted in the anthology, out now - appear below, beginning with the best of the best.

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