The Blunder Years
The Dark Ages of the New York Yankees (1965–1973)
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About the Book
Someone once said, “There once was a team so strong, that when a player hit a single, he was stopping the rally.” Such was the legacy of the New York Yankees through the early 1960s. Love ’em or hate ’em, theirs was a legacy of winning, of great players, of class and dignity. Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle were household names, and their participation in the fall classic was routinely anticipated. That would all come to a screeching halt in 1965, when the Yankees would begin an unforeseen and precipitous downslide. Finishing in last place in 1966, the team would languish under new CBS ownership, succumbing to the specters of age, injuries, mismanagement, and neglect, with no one to replace their immortal superstars. This was the Horace Clark era, the dark ages of the New York Yankees that I call the “blunder years.”
About the Author
Ron Quartararo is a senior level business development executive for a global technology company. He has spent the past 20 years in a variety of planning & development, strategy, solutions and sales roles in the media & entertainment industry.
Quartararo is also an accomplished writer with OpEd articles appearing in the NY Times, Daily News, Barron’s, Newsday, Business & Society Review, TV Executive, Broadcast Engineering and Broadcasting & Cable. His first book, La Famiglia: The Power & Passion of Family was published by Xlibris in 2010. His second, Exploring the Mafia Mystique, was published in 2014.
A life-long Yankee fan, Quartararo grew up during the late 60’, a period when Yankee heroes were hard to find and championships were relics of the past. Yet, despite the team’s reversal of fortune, this time was filled with memorable, (albeit sometimes frustrating) days, when Quartararo and his cousin would rediscover this remarkable franchise, whose achievements were and are unprecedented in sports. Now, more fully appreciating this era in Yankee history, Quartararo attempts to uncover the roots of the decline while sharing his personal experiences with the reader.