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Loading... Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a…by Buzz Bissinger
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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. (  ) Stodelay | Nov 1, 2009 |  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. (  ) tgraettinger | Jan 9, 2009 | With full access to and cooperation from Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, Bissinger tells the story of the three-game series between the Cardinals and the Cubs in 2003. He reveals details about how La Russa thinks and plans, as well as insight into different Cardinal players. For a similar insiders look into high-school football, try Friday Night Lights also by Buzz Bissinger. In Blades of Glory, John Rosengren takes the reader inside a high-school hockey team. npl | Dec 17, 2008 | 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! (  ) dvf1976 | Apr 23, 2008 | gwyneira | Oct 15, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0618710531, Paperback)Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's 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, he's 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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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