Grand unified books thread

[The Minsky Moment]

I had heard of him. A famous Yankee from one of their flop eras. Like Mattingly and his sideburns.

 

Like Mattingly?  Like Mattingly??????!!!!

Joe Pepitone was nothing like Don Mattingly.  Pepitone was a decent first bagger with some pop who gradually but steadily pissed away his potential popping pills and partying late into every night.  Mattingly was an MVP level talent, a universally acknowledged team leader with a relentless work ethic, whose Hall of Fame career was cut short by chronic and painful knee and back injuries.