Fabulous book with great insight.i thoroughly enjoyed reading this Book. May even consider reading it again. Thank you

A book for any Yankee fan. The author takes you the changing of the guard sort of speak, and how the young or baby bombers surprised most fans and even Yankees executives by making it game 7 of the American league Champion ship, only one game from going to the World series. The author takes you along on how the changes began with the retiring of Jeter and the then the trade for Didi Gregorius, who the other day drove in 8 runs the most ever by a Yankee shortstop, (that was not in the book). He also takes you through how they acquired the other players from Judge through draft, Sanchez, Severino, from the International after scouting. Bird, also from the draft, and then he will take you through both of the trades. First when they traded away Chapman, and then Andrews, and the young players that received from those trades. Then the following year when they traded for Sonny Gray and for Todd Frazier, Dave Robertson, Tommy Kahnle. What I thought was interesting though was that both Gregorius, and Ronald Torreyes started out in the Reds organization and now years later they are both playing and making contributions for the Yankees, I do know that there are players that the Yankees had that are playing on other teams but I am only looking at the Yankees right now. I found this book to be a good book and a must read for any Yankee fan. A very good book.

I received a free Kindle copy of The Baby Bombers by Bryan Hoch courtesy of Net Galley and Diversion Books, the publisher. It was with the understanding that I would post a review to Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and my nonfiction book review blog. I also posted it to my Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Plus pages.

I requested this book as I have been a lifelong New York Yankees and baseball fan and have read a great deal on both. This is the first book by Michael Blake that I have read.

I was a little leery in requesting this book as it was obviously put together in a short period of time, but I thought I would give it a try. The book met my expectations in that it reads like a quickly thrown together book that does not do its subject matter justice. The good points are it hits the highlights (barely) of the development of the group of Baby Bombers in the book (if you are a Yankees fan I don't need to list the names) and the 2017 playoff run by the Yankees. The other plus is that because it is not a detailed analysis it is a very quick read. In addition, the author does not make a strong case that this is the next Yankee dynasty (although I hope it is).

I recommend this book to any Yankee fan who is looking a light read on the 2017 season and the Baby Bombers who helped with the run for the pennant.

The Baby Bombers is a must read for all Yankee fans. After an amazing season it was fun to learn about the teams background. Very well written and I am very glad I got to read this book. Looking forward to an amazing 2018 season.

The 2017 New York Yankees were one of the pleasant surprises of the baseball season. Expected to finish out of the postseason because of their reliance on young players, the team not only gained a Wild Card spot, they pushed the eventual World Series champion Houston Astros to 7 games in the American League Championship Series. This book by veteran reporter Bryan Hoch provides insight into the team’s unexpected return to postseason glory.

The best way to describe the trajectory of the Yankees in 2016 and 2017 was that they were a team in transition, and Hoch guides the reader from the “Core Four” team of Jeter, Pettite, Posada and Rivera to the new stars of the team. The reader will learn about the performances of catcher Gary Sanchez, outfielder Aaron Judge, pitcher Luis Severino and first baseman Greg Bird as they led the team to 91 wins in that season.

Even more than just recaps of their seasons, the reader will learn more about each of these men on a personal level as well. There are some funny moments that are captured such as when Judge spent a week at the home of teammate Brett Gardner and ate the Easter candy of Gardner’s young sons. Anecdotes such as these were nice short diversions from the story of the on-field exploits of the Yankees. Because of their youth, they were often called the “Baby Bombers”, hence the title of the book.

While at times the book read like it came from the Yankee public relations department because it seemed like no player on the team could do anything wrong, it was a very engaging and entertaining read that every Yankee fan will want to pick up to learn more about the team’s new star players. Even fans of other teams will enjoy this book as it provides great insight into some of the game’s newest bright lights.

I wish to thank Diversion Books for providing a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a must read for a New York Yankees fan. For fans of other MLB teams, you will find value from this book, but you could take it or leave it. The book is an exploration of the youth movement in New York, and provides insight into several of the key players in the 2017 team's success. MLB is on the cusp of the next Yankee dynasty, and this book chronicles the genesis of this looming dynasty.

If you live and breath pinstripes April through deep October, Hoch’s Baby Bombers is a must read. It traces the transition of the team from the Jeter-Arod-Tex group to the young studs of 2017. It is a celebratory book espousing the great things these young kids are doing, not necessarily criticizing and not filled with gossip and innuendo as so many tell-all books are. It discusses the origins of Judge, Severino, Hicks, Castro, and Gregorius. It was completed after the 2017 playoffs and thus takes those games into account. Funny hearing talk of Starlin Castro being part of the Yankees’ future as he is suddenly gone and all the comparisons of Judge to Giancarlo Stanton are amusing now that they are both teammates. For Yankee fans and serious baseball fans, this is a book that’s hard to put down. Many thanks to the publisher for providing a copy for review.