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Baseball's Greatest Managers
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Baseball's Greatest Managers Paperback - 2017

by Frommer, Harvey

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  • Title Baseball's Greatest Managers
  • Author Frommer, Harvey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press
  • Date 2017-02-01
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781630761530
  • ISBN 9781630761530 / 1630761532
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball managers - United States, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016040207
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary baseball stars have been managers such as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Johnson, Mel Ott, George Sisler, and Honus Wagner. And Mediocre players, including Branch Rickey, Earl Weaver, Walter Alston have become managers.

Antics galore have accentuated managerial behavior: the pratfalls of Charley Grimm in the third-base coaching box; the umbrella-carrying Frankie Frisch arguing with the umpires that a game should be called; the cap twisting, body-gyrating movements of Earl Weaver, puffing cigarettes in the dugout and attempting to use body language to will his players to perform better.

Idiosyncrasies and special styles have characterized managers through the years. An entire collection of one-liners has developed over the years to characterize the managing profession. For trivia buffs, there's an entire world of statistical records about managers.

This books attempts to capture the style and substance of some of the greatest managers of all time. An effort has been made to give representation to the different eras of baseball, the various managing styles, and all the nuances and nostalgia that shape this fascinating subject.

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About the author

Harvey Frommer is a noted sports author and oral historian. He has written more than forty-two sports books including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park, and the autobiographies of Red Holzman, Nolan Ryan, and Tony Dorsett. Cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist, Dr. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire with his wife, Myrna.