From The Buckeyes to The Bronx, by Rick Bay

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Rick Bay was the Chief Operating Officer of the New York Yankees for 100 days. A short tenure, maybe, for any other major league baseball team, but not this franchise. Recruited personally by legendary owner George Steinbrenner and sharing the same office, Rick's time with the organization may have been brief but it was not without great stories from behind the scenes.

Rick was no stranger to working for well-known teams. He was coming off a headline-making stint as the Athletic Director of the Ohio State University, one of the nation's most prestigious programs, where he resigned in protest of the firing of football coach Earle Bruce. The story became a national one, with all of the controversy a college football fan could imagine.

From the Buckeyes to the Bronx is Rick's memoir and is a compelling and humorous look at his life with the Yankees and Ohio State, and also includes his first Athletic Director position with the University of Oregon where he sparred with NIKE Founder Phil Knight.

With the expertise and insight of a man who enjoyed a 25-year career in sports administration, a sometimes controversial one that included a stop as President of the Cleveland Indians, Rick takes the reader on an entertaining tour through three illustrious sports programs. With stories about George Steinbrenner, Woody Hayes, Earle Bruce, Bo Schembechler, Jack Nicklaus, Jim Boeheim, Bobby Knight, the late President Richard M. Nixon, Jeb Magruder - and many more notables - Rick shows what it is like to be the man leading the staff that makes the sports happen.

The Athletic Director of a big-time college sports program or a high-level position with a Major League Baseball team is a coveted spot with all of the imagined glamour and pomp that accompanies the position - rubbing shoulders with the best athletes, wining and dining celebrities and big name donors, getting the best seats in the house and more.

But what if there isn't money in the budget for painting the gym? How about a game of bingo at halftime of a basketball game? And what about the politics of the press box or owner's suite - who gets the best seats? And when a coach wants his team to travel on the morning of the big game, do you say no and incur his wrath or charter a special plane and pray that Mother Nature holds off on the snow?

The stories in From the Buckeyes to the Bronx are for fans of the Yankees, Buckeyes and Ducks, and great rival Red Sox and Michigan Wolverine fans will want to read them as well. The book is for the sports fan who wants to know more, and will hold special appeal to the student studying to be in sports administration who is looking for the real story of what they learn in class. There are over 140 university and college sports administration programs today and this book would make an excellent companion text in their curriculum.

From the Buckeyes to the Bronx is a different perspective on sports. There are hundreds of books by coaches, managers and players, and about great teams, but not one that gives the in-depth, behind the scenes perspective of the man running the show, like this one.