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 enlarge | Author: Buzz Bissinger
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 340483
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1565119762
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570977866
EAN: 9781565119765
ASIN: 1565119762
Publication Date: April 7, 2005
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 Another Winner by Buzz April 1, 2005
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is another wonderful book by Buzz Bissinger. It is not only entertaining, but also enlightening. But what else would we expect from a collaboration between a top writer and one of baseball's best managers? "Three Nights in August" rates as one of my three favorite reads this 2005 season -- with "Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America" and "The Luckiest Man Alive." All three are superb.
Buzz Bissinger's Best Writing Yet March 30, 2005
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Buzz Bissinger's Three Nights in August is his best effort yet -which says much, given the Pulitzer Prize winner's achievements with Friday Night Lights and A Prayer for the City. Three Nights in August is a marvelous blend of insights into baseball technique and strategy (information that will intrigue even the most knowledgeable of the sport) and revelations about the human condition, particularly in the context of teamwork, role-palying and leadership. This tightly written book, which uses as its setting a three-game series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in the heat of a division race, is one of substance. Anyone who has not read the book and might believe it to be just another cookie-cutter, pedestrian "as told to" vanity piece is sorely mistaken. Like Bissinger's previous works, this is a must-read.
 A book for the baseball fan only March 29, 2005
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
As usual Bisinger ("A Prayer for the City" and "Friday Day Night Lights") does his usual thorough job of research and reporting. But the book was slow to get going and I suspect a non-bebaseball fan will not be patient enough to stick with it.
However, this book lacks the wider appeal that made the two aorementioned books so popular. The writing dragged some and several scenes seemed endlessly detailed, with little reward at the end of the section.
The upside of the book is that the author gives us great insight into the work of a baseball manager and its many facets that are often unseen, or at least usually forgotten. Additionally, some details around the game time situations are wonderful and they keep the story going.
This book will appeal to baseball fans and will have very strong appeal to St. Louis fans.
Great in depth look March 29, 2005
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book gives a good look into the strategy that TLR uses in his management style. If I wasn't a Cardinals fan I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this book as well. I will likely re-read this book.
Good Baseball book March 20, 2005
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a very good sports genre book, but it could have been a little bit better. I was very skeptical when I picked it up, but I was very pleased by the end. it covered Tony La Russa as he prepared and executed his game plan around a series in 2003 against their arch-rivial Chicago Cubs. It covers him handling the Kile situation in 2002, how him & his wife handle his job, and gives his opinion on several of his players. As I read it, I was waiting for the obvious question: How did he get into management and choose it over the legal profession?. It never came.
The writer also starts off comparing the rivally of the Cubs and Cards - and how it is more intense than the Yanks and Red Soxs - No Way!
It is a great book for the baseball fan, but especially a St. Louis fan.
Above average for a sports-genre book.
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