This is an excellent book on leadership skills and team building. Unfortunately, the events referred to require the reader to have more than a summary interest in pro baseball and to have been a fan for the last 30+ years. That's a tall order. If you fall into that category, this book has a lot to offer. I'm not a Yankee fan but this book has so much historical information about America at the time and America's pastime that I raced through it. The book is organized into 15 separate chapters. Each has a theme clustered around what the Yankee tradition of team first was able to accomplish using that philosophy. Berra concedes that the times have changed and that it's almost impossible now to have that type of consistent dedication to team play. Still there are modern-day players who would have fit right into the old Yankee line ups. Berra does give critiques on the deficient play of some but overall the book aims to praise those individuals who sacrifice personal glory in order that the team as a whole may triumph. Berra is a Hall of Famer so his opinion carries weight. He doesn't throw it around lightly. He is probably most famous outside of the game for his aphorisms like "It's not over, till it's over", "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" and "It's deja vu all over again". Overall this is a great book with coauthor Kaplan making it all look effortless. This book will fall out of fashion, in my view, being tied to a style of play that is long gone and examples far too remote for most readers to remember. It's an undeserved absence in American sports writing, that it has to be so. Index, B/W photos ( )