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Inside the Empire

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by Bob Klapisch

Cashman’s luxury suite, 54

  fan belligerence, 83, 178, 179–80, 183–84, 185

  fan experience, 80–81

  Legends Hospitality, 139–40, 151, 152, 153

  millennial fans, 172

  new Stadium, 149–51, 178, 179

  in off-season, 205

  renovations, 80–81

  security, 14, 189

  World Series posters, 191–92

  The Yankee Years (Torre and Verducci), 17, 154–57

  YES Network

  2018 ALDS, 198–99

  Center Stage, 147

  color analysts, 128

  Cone on Yankees’ injuries, 128–29

  creation of, 78, 139, 145–49

  in Jeter contract talks, 9

  local TV revenue, 129

  market value, 153

  The Road to the Show, 173

  sale to FOX, 153

  SportsMoney Show, 151

  Steinbrenner’s use of, 61

  viewership decline, 80, 172

  viewership increase, 83, 172–73

  Yankee Classics, 147

  Yankeeography, 147

  Yount, Robin, 16

  Z

  Zaidi, Farhan, 44

  Zillo, Jason

  Boone and, 20, 159

  genial personality, 62

  Judge and, 71

  at Klapisch’s interview of Hal Steinbrenner, 173

  media training for young players, 61–64

  as Yankees’ media chief, 20, 61–62

  About the Authors

  BOB KLAPISCH has covered baseball for the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Bergen Record, as well as ESPN, FOX Sports, and USA Today. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Journal. Klapisch has won several Top Five awards in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors contest and appears regularly on MLB Network. A graduate of Columbia University, where he played varsity baseball, Klapisch continues to pitch in the semiprofessional Metropolitan League in Bergen County. He and his family live in Westwood, New Jersey.

  PAUL SOLOTAROFF is a veteran feature writer at Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. An investigative journalist whose fixed beat is social justice, he helped break the NFL concussion scandal, reported the horror-show conditions at Walter Reed Hospital, and wrote a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were doing life without parole in state prisons. Winner of two Genesis Awards and a National Press Club Award, he is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award finalist, as well as the best-selling author of three previous books. He lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife, Cynthia, who leaves the room to preserve her hearing and dignity when he watches the Yankees.

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