The Year I Owned The Yankees

The Year I Owned the Yankees

What would you do if you owned the New York Yankees? The book “The Year I owned the Yankees” is written by Sparky lye. It is about Sparky buying the Yankees and takes you in on the things he would do. He tries to get the old Yankees and start winning games again. The mode of literature in this story is comedy because the main character is always in control and the story is realistic.

This book’s main character is Sparky lye and he buys the Yankees making him the owner. Sparky lye is the boss and makes a lot of changes. This proves he is in control, because if someone is the boss of something they are in control on what he can do. In this case it is Sparky with the Yankees. This story is also very realistic because this story’s events are possible but it is just a fantasy.

In addition in the M.C being in control and being realistic, this story starts out in everyday life. Sparky was watching jeopardy then the phone rang for an offer to buy the Yankees. Then the main character causes a conflict which was buying them because it made the old owner (George Steinbrenner) mad. So George had security to take him out because he locked himself in his office for a long time. The problem got worse when he found all the tapes in his desk later with him making deals with players and lies to them behind their back. Later Sparky solved the problem and made sure he would not lie to the players about their paycheck. Everyone likes Sparky a lot better than the former owner because Sparky is honest to the players and when he would give someone a raise he would not lie about it. The New York Yankees ended up winning the World Series thanks to Sparky.

This is one of the best books to read if you like baseball. It’s a fun story to read that is in fact a comedy mode of literature. Most baseball books are only about the game, this book is different. They Year I Owned The Yankees take an inside look of what would being the owner really be like. With the story being realistic and the main character is in control.