An exclusive excerpt from the new book “Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, out March 26).
The General Manager Meetings each fall are baseball’s version of a buddies’ fishing junket to Belize. Executives harrowed by the grind of the season — six months of seven-day/eighty-hour weeks; back-page eruptions after three-game slumps; and side-eyed shade from their high school daughters over another pre-prom party not attended — disappear for four days in mid-November to a luxe hotel overlooking a golf course.
None of the GMs can putt worth a damn, but the greens are beside the point.