Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
by Michael Lewis

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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Author: Michael Lewis
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-16
ISBN: 0393060918
Number of pages: 93
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Book Review: Trophy Kids
Summary: 4 Stars

This story is so relevant in today's (American) world where every child is a winner, every child is gifted and every critique must only accentuate the positive. Although we are raising our children to think everyone plays, everyone is good and everyone deserves a trophy are we doing them a disservice? I'd want a bit of Coach Fitz in every coach. Life is not fair.

Summary of Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand at a crucial point in the game and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do." The coach's message was not simply about winning but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage and endurance. Thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.

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