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 enlarge | Author: Don Zimmer
Creators: Bill Madden, Dennis Mckee
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Category: Book
List Price: $56.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2932807
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 8
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786120193
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780786120192
ASIN: 0786120193
Publication Date: November 2001
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Condition: Brand New! UNABRIDGED audiobook on CASSETTE direct from the manufacturer. Sturdy vinyl case.
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 Great Entertaining Book.... February 7, 2004
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don Zimmer is a true gentleman in the sport. He is old school and brings the experience of playing when players barley got paid.
 ZIM January 10, 2004
A summary of my book is about Don Zimmer's life. Don zimmer was a professional baseball player. Don Zimmer is now the bench coach for the new York Yankees. People consider Don Zimmer a Baseball mastermind, but he disagrees he quoted in his book that if he was a baseball mastermind he wouldn't have hit a 257 batting average. But I think he is because you can tell that he knows what he is talking about from reading the book. Bill madden (author) Wrote about all the important things that happened in his life from he was born to now. He considers himself as an average baseball player only because he had a 257 career batting average, but he is an a lot better player then average. He played with Jackie Robinson (the first African American player to enter the Major leagues. He played in the pros for a long time and he had excellent experience so when he tells a big leaguer something they better listen because he knows what hes talking about.
I enjoyed reading "ZIM" He gave the readers good tips and I know he gives the Yankees great tips. This book was probably my favorite book that I ever have read because it was really interesting when he told stories about times in his life. I also like the book because he loves baseball and so do I.
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K.C
Not just stories, but insight into his character December 11, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
After reading Zim: A Baseball Life, I was not surprised by the things that happened with Don Zimmer in the 2003 post-season. He's a tough old guy who knows what he thinks, and he has his own reasons to be upset at a pitcher who throws at people's heads (Zimmer was once nearly killed by a pitched ball). Zimmer is willing to own up to his mistakes, and he is the one guy who made a public apology after the incident with Pedro Martinez. It's also not surprising that he threatened to quit because of Steinbrenner's treatment of the coaching staff - the book has several examples of Zimmer leaving jobs when he felt he wasn't being treated right.Zimmer finds something nice to say about most of the people he's worked with, except for Bill Lee. He hates Bill Lee, who named him The Gerbil. Lee is a counterculture type, the sort I would expect to get under Zimmer's skin. I was disappointed but not surprised to learn that Zimmer finds Bill Lee to be not just insufferable, but almost sub-human.
An entertaining book from a great baseball man September 11, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I never was a big Don Zimmer fan until I saw the event that led to the caption of this book. I watched the game where he got hit in the head with a ball, and then came back out in a pith helmet. From that moment on, I was a Zimmer fan (as I am a Torre fan, even if I'm not a "Yankee" fan). Anyway, this book is a good read - Of course, I skipped to the chapter on his year or so as a Texas Rangers manager, which was my primary interest in reading the book. However, it's a lot more than that. If you get a chance, pick it up. It's good stuff.
Full of Wondrous Stories November 6, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is the autobiography of a man who in his own words was "a liftime .235 hitter." But oh what a .235 hitter! A man who played with Jackie Robunson, Pee Wee Reese, and several other famous Brooklyn Dodgers, who while managing the Red Sox had a pitcher who called him a "gerbil," and dealt with a "clueless owner" while managing the Rangers, and who was fortunate enough to be part of the Yankees' late 90s dynasty. And the stories he tells in this book are ones worthy of a man who has been in baseball over 50 years. His times with the Dodgers, his reign as manager of the perenially hopeless Chicago Cubs, his times as bench coach with the Yankees. And yet he has a kind word for virtually everyone he has either played with or against, or managed or coached, with the exception of Bill Lee. It's apparent the two did not get along, then again I'm not sure how I'd handle being called a "gerbil" either.This book shows "Zim" to be a delight both on and off the baseball field and a man who has seen virtually everything in his baseball life.
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