This Ain't Brain Surgery: How To Win The Pennant Without Losing Your Mind - Couverture souple

Dierker, Larry

 
9780803266513: This Ain't Brain Surgery: How To Win The Pennant Without Losing Your Mind
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ISBN 10 : 0803266510 ISBN 13 : 9780803266513
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Synopsis

Nearly everyone in major-league baseball was surprised when longtime Houston Astros player and then broadcaster Larry Dierker was hired to manage the Astros following the 1996 season without previous managerial experience at any level of the game. In the five years that followed, however, Dierker confounded the experts and led the team to four National League Central division titles and four playoff appearances, and was named the National League Manager of the Year in 1998. Adroitly handling every sort of distraction and disaster than can befall a team-including suffering a nearly catastrophic seizure during a game-Dierker excelled like no other manager in Astros history, until resigning at the end of the 2001 season. In This Ain't Brain Surgery, Larry Dierker draws on his vast experience of nearly four decades in baseball to reflect on his tenure as Astros manager, telling the reader along the way that the game isn't so simple, that personalities clash, and that intuition isn't everything. Woven into the narrative of this book are thoughtful and humorous anecdotes from his playing days.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Larry Dierker pitched for the Houston Astros from 1964 to 1976. He made his debut on his eighteenth birthday and in his first inning struck out Willie Mays. In 1969 he became the Astros' first 20-game winner. He was named to the National League All-Star team in 1969 and 1971. As a pitcher he remains the franchise career leader in innings pitched and complete games, and is second in wins. After doing color commentary on Astros' radio and television broadcasts, Dierker managed the team from 1997 to 2001. He led Houston to a first-place finish in four of these five seasons. In 2004 he returned to color commentary. He is the author of This Ain't Brain Surgery: How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803266510
ISBN 13 
9780803266513
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
309
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780743204002: This Ain't Brain Surgery: How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  074320400X ISBN 13 :  9780743204002
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2003
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