“Swing and a Hit” by Paul O’Neill with Jack Curry (Grand Central Publishing)
To date, nearly every starter in the New York Yankees dynasty who has won four World Series titles in six years (1996, 1998-2000) has written a memoir. Paul O’Neill, the nice single left-hander who, during his 17-year major league career in Cincinnati and New York, hit 2,107 hits, now has two.
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