Peter Golenbock

Who is Peter Golenbock?

Peter Golenbock is a sports journalist and author. He has written nine New York Times best sellers including Dynasty The New York Yankees 1949-1964, The Bronx Zoo, Number 1, Balls, Personal Fouls, Idiot, Presumed Guilty, American Prince, and Driven.

Golenbock was working as an lawyer for Prentice-Hall in the summer of 1972 when he knocked on the door of Nick D'Incecco, the head of P-H's trade book division, and told D'Incecco he wanted to write a history of the Casey Stengel New York Yankees. D'Incecco, being a Yankee fan, liked the idea and incredibly gave him a contract almost on the spot. Golenbock interviewed almost all of the Yankees of that era. Billy Martin so loved what Golenbock wrote in Dynasty that he asked him to write his autobiography, Number 1.

As a result Golenbock continued to write books on the Yankees - The Bronx Zoo, Balls, and Number 1, to name a few. He covered the old Brooklyn Dodgers teams in Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He also has written books on NASCAR, the New York Mets, and the Boston Red Sox.