Author: Molly Knight
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147677630X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
The Best Team Money Can Buy
Author: Molly Knight
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147677630X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147677630X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
The Worst Team Money Could Buy
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278226
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however. Veteran newspapermen Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets? decline and fall?with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper. From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical ?jokes? that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grand-slam classic.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803278226
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however. Veteran newspapermen Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets? decline and fall?with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper. From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical ?jokes? that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grand-slam classic.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066231
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066231
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
Feeding the Monster
Author: Seth Mnookin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743286820
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history of the Boston Red Sox baseball league describing the players, coaches, management, and politics that contributed to their 2004 World Series championship.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743286820
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history of the Boston Red Sox baseball league describing the players, coaches, management, and politics that contributed to their 2004 World Series championship.
More Important Than Money
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
Publisher: RDA Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781937832872
Category : Business networks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explains the importance of assembling a strong team as an early step to wealth, sharing essays from the author's group of advisors and offering profiles of the each with excerpts from their Rich Dad Advisor books.
Publisher: RDA Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781937832872
Category : Business networks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explains the importance of assembling a strong team as an early step to wealth, sharing essays from the author's group of advisors and offering profiles of the each with excerpts from their Rich Dad Advisor books.
Sun-Maid Herald
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Category : Raisin industry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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Category : Raisin industry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Bump and Run
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399146473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jack Molloy inherits half of the New York Hawks, and "over the course of a single season, Molloy will get a crash course in steroids, gambling, crooked quarterbacks, idiot sportswriters, control-freak coaches, and philandering announcers."--Jacket.
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399146473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jack Molloy inherits half of the New York Hawks, and "over the course of a single season, Molloy will get a crash course in steroids, gambling, crooked quarterbacks, idiot sportswriters, control-freak coaches, and philandering announcers."--Jacket.
Farm Journal and Country Gentleman
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Farm Journal
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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