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Believe me. You really want to learn who Jeff Mangold is. The more you know Mangold, and the more pages of Power and Pinstripes : My Years Training the New York Yankees (www.triumphbooks.com), you'll learn so much more of how the World Series winning Yankees (1998-2000) prepared themselves for some of the most important seasons in the organizations history. Mangold is clearly one of the nicest, more genuine authors I have ever come across. I sincerely mean - ever.  As the head strength and conditioning coach for the Yankees, during two stints, that spanned 14 years in the Bronx, Mangold was ...

– Jeff Mangold, co-author, “Power and Pinstripes: My Years Training the ” As I was reading Jeff Mangold’s new book, that was the second main item that preceded an eyebrow raise. The “it” to which Mangold, the former Yankees strength and conditioning coach, referred in the quote above was the barrel end of Mike Piazza’s bat — more specifically, the shard that Roger Clemens dismissively flung toward Piazza in the 2000 World Series. I’ve never been in a major league dugout before, so I don’t know the standard operating procedure of broken-bat removal, but it did seem in my a...