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| User Reviews and Ratings | 5 (8 ratings) 5 out of 5 stars |
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Paperback)
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This is probably the best baseball book I have ever read. Whereas Moneball tends to focus more on how to assemble a winning team, this book focuses on the in-game strategies used to wind individual ballgames. It is a very interesting and informative read for any baseball fan.
In the words of a fellow reviewier: this book is beautiful baseball.
As a Cubs fan, it was interesting to get some insight into the world of the hated Cardinals and their manager, LaRussa. He's definitely "old school", and you get the sense that Bissinger very much leans that way, too. Like it or not, he's probably one of the last of the breed.
Kerry Robinson wanted to be a full-time starter. La Russa didn't think he should be a full-time starter and said: "Go find somebody who's going to give you the four or five hundred at-bats, and I hope they're in our division so we can play against you." That's great!
Follows Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa through a 3-game series. Bissinger profiles his managing style, along with his coaches and players, in much the same style as his previous book, Friday Night Lights.
A wonderful look at the mind of one of the greatest managers in baseball (even though I'm a Cubs fan). I enjoyed it very much!
So I read this last winter while working days land surveying. It was average. The book is essentially an indepth look into the psyche and life of Tony LaRussa, the former White Sox and A's manager who now manages the Cardinals. It was an interesting baseball book with occasional patches of good sportswriting, but nothing spectacular. It follow La Russa through a three game stand against the Chicago Cubs (then managed by Dusty Baker, I think). La Russa comes off as an intense, super focused baseball geek, and is almost completely joyless, which I suppose is a fairly honest portrayal of him. Buzz Bissinger wrote Friday Night Lights, too, which he never lets you forget, writing a fairly long self-congratulatory preface/intro to the book. Only for hard-core baseball nerds or fans of Rickey Henderson and the Bash Brothers.
So I read this last winter while working days land surveying. It was average. The book is essentially an indepth look into the psyche and life of Tony LaRussa, the former White Sox and A's manager who now manages the Cardinals. It was an interesting baseball book with occasional patches of good sportswriting, but nothing spectacular. It follow La Russa through a three game stand against the Chicago Cubs (then managed by Dusty Baker, I think). La Russa comes off as an intense, super focused baseball geek, and is almost completely joyless, which I suppose is a fairly honest portrayal of him. Buzz Bissinger wrote Friday Night Lights, too, which he never lets you forget, writing a fairly long self-congratulatory preface/intro to the book. Only for hard-core baseball nerds or fans of Rickey Henderson and the Bash Brothers.