Review: 'Swing and a Hit’ for diehard Yankees fans only

By now, nearly ever starter on the New York Yankees dynasty that won four World Series titles in six years has written a memoir

“Swing and a Hit” by Paul O’Neill with Jack Curry (Grand Central Publishing)

By now, nearly ever starter on the New York Yankees dynasty that won four World Series titles in six years (1996, 1998-2000) has written a memoir. Paul O’Neill, the sweet-single leftie who over the course of his 17-year major league career in Cincinnati and New York rapped 2,107 hits, now has two.

“Me and My Dad” (2003) told the story of how O’Neill’s father fostered his love of the game. “Swing and a Hit” isn’t as heavy on the biography, but like a well-honed baseball swing, it repeats itself again and again.

“My best and most comfortable approach was to swing so that I connected with the top half of the baseball, not the lower half, and not trying to swing under the baseball,” he writes on page three. He repeats that fact countless more times in the next 239 pages, so that by the end there is no doubt how he feels about the current generation of power hitters who often either strike out or hit a home run.