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Chargement... Nice Guys Finish Last (édition 2009)par Leo Durocher, Ed Linn
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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. A great biography about a great manager, this has some wonderful, funny stories of Leo's 48 years in baseball. ( ) Fun and readable, and definitely interesting. Baseball personalities and Hollywood personalities. Lots of exciting baseball. And excellent descriptions of how he made his teams succeed, both in the dugout and by working with the front office. All this in a generally light tone and usually sympathetic to everyone involved, even in disputes. (There *are* lots of disputes, of course.) Except for the last two chapters. One tells how Marvin Miller ruined the game; the other's a rant about the no-good younger generation. In the end Leo turns into a cranky (old) guy to match his reputation. Terrific storyteller, enjoyed reading about the hundreds of major sports and entertainment people that Durocher knew first-hand. Favorite stuff, though are those few places where he reveals his management philosophies. Building winners in Brooklyn and New York through shrewd talent evaluation, then coaxing the maximum out of twenty-five diverse clubhouse personalities, he shows better than anyone just what it takes to be a success in baseball... and how easy it is to fail. Great book for any fan of the game. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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