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3 Nights in August
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager | Buzz Bissinger
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This inside view with the Cardinals Tony La Russa by the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Friday Night Lights should appeal to any baseball fan (Publishers Weekly). A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year Plenty of books have taken us inside baseball, but August takes us directly inside players heads. Entertainment Weekly 3 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, the Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of legendary Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the greatest manager of the modern era. In his thirty-three years of managing, La Russa won three World Series titles and was named Manager of the Year a record five times. He now stands as the third-winningest manager in the history of baseball. A great leader, La Russa 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 skipper and his team, Buzz Bissinger portrays baseball with a revelatory intimacy that offers many surprisingly tactical insightsand furthers the debate on major league managerial style and strategy in his provocative afterword. Superb . . . Will be devoured by hard-core strategists. The New York Times Book Review
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Coffeymuse
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I am a huge STL Cardinals fan and loved this book.

The author also wrote “Friday Night Lights“, if your familiar with that.

#Schoolspirit
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@Eggs

Eggs Perfection! 3mo
Karisimo Go Red Birds!!! 3mo
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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My #nonficpick for August. I had been meaning to read this for a while now, and was excited to find it on Hoopla. You have to *really* like baseball to enjoy this book. I learned a lot! Baseball is so incredibly intricate and complicated. I am fascinated by it. This took place in '03 and I became a Cardinals fan in '04, so it was like visiting old friends. ❤ ⚾️
#hoopla #baseball #cardinals #nonfiction #gocards

sprainedbrain Tony! I ❤️ Cardinals baseball. ⚾️ 6y
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Here's my stack of #nonfictionlove The World We Live In was a birthday present from my mom and dad a long time ago. It's still one of my favorite books...full of science and nature stuff🌳🌎🐚⛈🌪🌋. Orbit is just one of many coffee table photography books. 3 Nights in August is a really good baseball book and I ❤️❤️❤️ baseball (even though my team is really, really bad this year☹️)
#nonfictionlove #septemberphotochallenge #somethingforsept

Posemn Hmmmmm......bad baseball team......you don't live in MN do you? 8y
slhbooks Oh yes, just down here in Inver Grove Hts. Watched another bad game last night, but I do get caught up on Litsy and add more books to my TBR list📚😉 @Posemn 8y
Posemn That sounds like a good plan for watching Twins baseball. THIS year. Next season will be better, right?! Right?! 😁 8y
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slhbooks So many 8y
slhbooks That darn send button! So many things need fixing, but I guess I'm the eternal optimist when it comes to Twins baseball❤️⚾️ @Posemn 8y
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