Three Nights in August : Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

English

ISBN: 0618710531

EAN: 9780618710539

Category: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 03/17/2006

Synopsis: Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseballs quintessential form, the three-game series. As the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the shrewdest mind in the game today. In his twenty-seven years of managing, La Russa has been named Manager of the Year a record-making five times and now stands as the third-winningest baseball manager of all time. A great leader, hes built his success on the conviction that ball games are won not only by the numbers but also by the hearts and minds of those who play. Drawing on unprecedented access to a major league manager and his team, Buzz Bissinger brings a revelatory intimacy to baseball and offers some surprising observations. Bissinger also furthers the debate on major league managerial style and strategy in his provocative new afterword.

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Three Nights in August : Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 11.08 oz

Pages: 320