The Man in the Dugout: Fifteen Big League Managers Speak Their Minds
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803272707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 343 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Another Honig Classic Patrick This is one more Donald Honig masterpiece that you should add to your baseball library. In this edition, Honig interviews player-managers Ossie Bluege, Roger Peckinpaugh, and Hall of Famers Burleigh Grimes and Al Lopez, among others. This time, you read the stories of a manager's point of view as well, which is very interesting.This book is about a rookie third baseman coming up the l. "Four Stars" according to John Dunne. Good
“With every baseball book, Don Honig heaps delight on top of pleasure. He has worked the vein with skill and taste and enthusiasm enough to enrich all of us fans.”—Red Smith
The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball.