Phil Pepe has written more than fifty books, mostly on baseball, including collaborations with Mickey Mantle (the New York Times bestseller My Favorite Summer: 1956), Whitey Ford, Billy Martin, and Jim Kaat. His latest work is Core Four: The Heart and Soul of the Yankees Dynasty. He is a former Yankees beat writer for the New York Daily News and a past president of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

"Yankee Doodles humanizes the legends we have come to love and worship. We get to know the players as Pepe did, once the lights and cameras were turned off"--