Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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Book Reviews of Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
Book Review: Lewis is at it again...
Summary: 4 Stars
From the author of several fantastic books, comes a great short synopsis leadership, motivation and team dynamics.
Book Review: A Must Read for All Players, Parents and Coaches
Summary: 5 Stars
As a coach at a prep school, the experiences that Coach Fitz is dealing with are all too familiar. Michael Lewis puts together a touching work that causes the reader to stop and think.
Every athlete and their parents should be required to read this book. I know my baseball players will be!
Book Review: Must Read Book
Summary: 5 Stars
As a former High School and College Baseball player, and a current high school baseball coach, I have never read a book that epitomizes youth baseball today more than this one. Lewis' description of his experiences, and his coaches experiences, regarding todays parents/athletes could not be better. Every parent of a youth/high school athlete should read this book before they even consider complaining to their child's coach. I am only in my mid 20's and I can relate to many of the experiences described in this book. It's a very quick read as well. If I could give it 100 stars I would. For those readers who complained about the length of the book, yes it is a quick read but the book only costs 10 dollars. Anyone who is looking for a lengthy book should know not to purchase a book that is 90 pages long. For those of you who were, and then bought the book, that's your own fault. Great book. Book Review: Lessons On Society Losing Its Way
Summary: 5 Stars
Best selling author (Moneyball, Liar's Poker, and the New New Thing), Michael Lewis has written a little (90 pages) jewel with "Coach." Lewis reflects on his life at Isidore Newman School and the impact that his baseball coach and teacher, Billy "Fitz" Fitzgerald, had in shaping his life.
Fitz entered Lewis's mind at age 12 and has stayed there ever since. Think about that rare teacher or coach that has stayed with you into your adult life; reminisce with Lewis as he rediscovers the attributes of this relationship and its impact on his life.
Lewis's learning that a former player was organizing an effort to remodel the old gym and have it named after Fitz served as the catalyst for the book. While the cash was pouring in from former players and the parents of former players, current players and their parents were doing all that they could to persuade the headmaster to get rid of him.
This conflict allows Lewis to contrast a time when Fitz worked tirelessly to give boys a sense that their lives could be something other than ordinary to what is happening today. Fitz effectiveness had ended as he had run up against the culture of "kids being bestowed with a sense of self-esteem at birth."
The system of values he attempted to instill is no longer in alignment and was now more difficult than those of the parents and of the greater society. They are not in sync; they are no longer tolerated.
"Coach" transcends the events surrounding Fitz and the gym revealing the dark side of a society that has lost its way with honorable values and meaning.
Book Review: Coach
Summary: 5 Stars
Passionately written by a gentleman who came to respect his baseball coach almost as much as he loves the children to whom he dedicated the book.
Must reading for the coaches, teachers, scout leaders, and all those others of "influence" over the next generation.
Michael Lewis is a wonderful writer; I suspect, after reading this, an equally great parent. I highly recommend this book to those either in the midst of or contemplating raising children.