You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Yogi Berra
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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Yogi Berra, one of baseball's greatest catchers and bestselling author of "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!" uses stories and black-and-white photos from his legendary career to show readers how to be better team players.
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- Title You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life
- Author Yogi Berra
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition First edition thus.
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York
- Date 2008
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # HD044
- ISBN 9780470454046 / 0470454040
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Teamwork (Sports), Baseball players - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the jacket flap
In "You Can Observe a Lot by Watching," Yogi offers good-natured reminiscing with a serious purpose in mind: to deliver a thoughtful and instructive account of the single most important factor in creating a winning team in any sport, business, or other venture--teamwork.
Over his seventeen years as a major-league player, Yogi and his Yankee teammates won fourteen pennants and ten World Series. Sharing hundreds of telling stories from those golden years, Yogi demonstrates that the secret of the team's fabulous success was not merely the stellar play of Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, and Yogi himself; it was the way they and everyone else on the roster worked together, on and off the field. DiMaggio gave a rookie named Berra a tip that changed his career. Mantle's good humor kept the whole team loose when things were going badly. And, in 1960, Maris surprised everyone by bunting a runner in from third rather than swinging away for his 55th homer.
In this heartfelt tribute to qualities that often appear to be fading from professional sports, Yogi shows you how to be a better teammate and contribute all you can to your team's quest for excellence. You'll learn why even the greatest players have to put the team's welfare before their own, protect their teammates, and take responsibility for their actions. You'll discover the secret of being a good teammate to someone you don't reallylike; the importance of controlling your emotions in every situation; and how even the least talented player can make outstanding contributions to the team.
Complete with colorful tales about Don Larsen's perfect game, the twelve Yankees who played on all of the teams that won five consecutive championships, and how Phil Linz's harmonica turned a tough season into a trip to the World Series, "You Can Observe a Lot by Watching" gives you the most fun you'll ever have while learning something, too.
