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Chargement... Coach: Lessons on the Game of Lifepar Michael Lewis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Super quick interesting read by Lewis. Lewis is a terrific journalist. This is basically just a personal story of his High School baseball coach. Its half a nostalgic trip of the writer about his coach, who changed his life, and half an indictment about the current 'crop' of parents of players. (Not just at that school, but in general). Its an quick and easy enough to read to be entertaining, so its briefness is a good thing, anything longer would be too much. It's definitely passable and unremarkable (unless you're Michael Lewis, or Fitz, or went to the school). The pictures (nearly every other page) are pretty much pointless and don't even correlate with the book all that much (except for the last photo which is the author pitching). ( ) This slim tome called to me from the shelves, which is unusual, since I'm not a fan of sports at all. But Lewis' book is less about sports and more about the art of inspiring teenagers to strive for excellence. "Coach" is an homage to Lewis' greatest mentor, Coach Fitz, whose unorthodox methods inspired generations of basketball and baseball players. At least, Coach Fitz was able to inspire the teens under his tuteledge until recently. Lewis spends the greater part of the book bemoaning the fact that Coach Fitz's approach has been considerably softened by parents who regularly call to complain that their child hasn't been playing, that Coach Fitz is to hard on them and that Coach Fitz is just plain unfair. That Coach Fitz works at an exclusive private school funded by these complaining parents puts him at a distinct disadvantage. Unfortunately, there is no inspirational ending, just a sad commentary on parents who wish to shield their children from the slightest difficulties or inconveniences. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do." The coach's message was not simply about winning but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. In some ways, and now 30 years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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