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 enlarge | Author: Buzz Bissinger
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 340483
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
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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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 If you like baseball you gotta read this book December 6, 2006
I read this book in hopes of finding out I was justified in not liking Tony Larussa. Quite the opposite. I have an undying respect for the man now.I will always be a Cubs fan but I will now look even more forward to the rivalry they have with the Cardinals. This book was as fair to the enemy as it was as hard on the hero. Well written, great history but I don't know if it can carry to the big screen as is rumoured.
sT louis November 29, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
.His writing is excellent, Bissinger left off with a high point at the end off very chapter that makes you read more of it. It is enjoyable and fun to read. This is a very great book by a great writer. A-lot of people should read this book because it is a great book about baseball.
Good, but gets off the point November 10, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love baseball. In fact, outside of my wife and family, I cannot think of anything I love more than baseball.
That said, I am pretty ignorant of the subtle intrececies of how the game is played and managed. OK, I understand the rules, but I am pretty clueless on when to give the light to hit or not, when to call for a hit-and-run, etc.
This book gives some excellent insights into the finer points (at least finer from my eyes) of managing and why a manager makes certain calls or decides not to.
My only complaint about the book is that it deviates from a discussion of strategy to talk about LaSorta's personal life. I do not know about you, but I could not care less where he lives, where his wife lives and how often they see each other.
That said, certainly worth reading. It is helping me get through the off-season. Short of watching baseball, reading about it is a pretty close second.
The Game Through The Eyes Of The Manager November 9, 2006
St. Louis skipper Tony La Russa took more heat from this book than any decisions or comments he made during his hall-of-fame managerial career.
Teaming with writer Buzz Bissinger, the book chronicles a 2003 three-game series the Cardinals had with the Chicago Cubs. The book weaves through the games through the eyes of La Russa, with outstanding pieces on his life and feelings about the game.
At least one player made it known to La Russa - through the proverbial baseball grapevine - that he would no longer autograph items for auction to benefit Tony La Russa's ARF due to several comments in the book.
There were other grumblings that made it to print in the national press - especially that Bissinger was attempting to debunk the theory of statistical analysis in the bestselling Moneyball - but Three Nights in August is a true account of what a manager is thinking at the moment something is happening on the field or in the dugout. That it was a true account puts the negative comments in perspective.
A reader will not get any closer to the action or gain a better appreciation on the life off the field of La Russa.
 Memories for Cardinals fans delivered in terrible prose October 9, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This lifelong Cardinals fan managed to get through the book, but it's hard to imagine any non Cardinals fan who is not a speed reader doing the same.
Though I am not an obsessive baseball fan (haven't seen a game even on TV for nearly 20 years), the in-game stategies Bissinger details are nothing surprising; in context, anyone, experienced or not, would seem likely to come up with them. Readers will learning virtually nothing here.
To give Bissinger a break, it seems he agreed and perhaps signed a contract to write this book without realizing there would not be anything to say.
Bissinger does not deserve a break for his criticisms of Lewis' "Moneyball," however. (The hardback edition of "3 Nights," perhaps, is not so strongly positioned against that far better book, but the paperback I read contains an afterword devoted entirely to trashing Lewis' book without (a) any understanding of it, (b) apparently, a rereading of it, and (c) any evidence whatsoever to butress Bissinger's "ya gotta have heart" position.
Likewise, Bissinger deserves no break for the horribly bad, lazy prose here. Examples: Pujols is referred to in his first 20 or so mentions as "the great Pujols." No variations (not even "the really great") of the phrase are used. Page 275: a player plays "each and every game at five hundred percent." Page 254: a World Series victory is marked by a "Rubik's Cube of a hug." Page 243 (and elsewhere): "sultry hot," as if "sultry" does not imply "hot." Page 224: "white hair as finely woven as pasta." This is the kind of writing folks compose deliberately to win bad writing contests.
Disappointingly, the paperback edition, at least, doesn't even have any pictures.
Stay away from this one.
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