Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
Author: H.G. Bissinger
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author captures baseball’s strategic and emotional essences through a point-blank account of one three-game series viewed through the keen eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa. Drawing on unprecedented access to a manager and his team, Bissinger brings the same revelatory intimacy to major-league baseball that he did to high school football in h….Read More
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