In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball - Couverture rigide

Armour, Mark; Levitt, Daniel R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080323497X ISBN 13 : 9780803234970

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2015

Synopsis

The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants-why do some baseball teams win while others don’t?

General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past hundred-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams.

Whether through scouting, integration, instruction, expansion, free agency, or modernizing their management structure, each winning team and each era had its own version of Moneyball, where front office decisions often made the difference. Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt show how these teams succeeded and how they relied on talent both on the field and in the front office. While there is no recipe for guaranteed success in a competitive, ever-changing environment, these teams demonstrate how creatively thinking about one’s circumstances can often lead to a competitive advantage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel R. Levitt is the author of Ed Barrow (Nebraska, 2008) and coauthor, along with Mark Armour, of In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball (Nebraska, 2015) and Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way (Potomac, 2004), winner of the Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award. He is also the author of numerous baseball articles and biographies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080323497X
• ISBN 13: 9780803234970
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
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