Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
by George F. Will
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Author: George F. WillEdition: Paperback
Published: 1991-04-24
ISBN: 0060973722
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Summary: 5 Stars
What would it be like to go to work every day and play baseball? What if baseball were your job? How is working baseball different than playing baseball?
There is the premise of Men at Work. Baseball is a job. Those who do well at the job, do thing similar to anyone who is successful in any job.
George Will had the foresight of including two first ballot Hall of Famers in his study of 4 baseball workers. Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn. The other two workers, Tony LaRussa and Orel Hershiser, are no slouches.
The text is somewhat dated. It does not consider the steroid era or the parallel home run record orgy. No labor dispute unpleasantness of the nineties.
The idea that Major League Baseball is a job, an employment, a vocation, a craft is important for anyone serious about the study of modern baseball.
Summary of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
In Men at Work, political pundit George Will breaks baseball down, parsing it into essential tasks: hitting, fielding, pitching, and managing. Why do some succeed grandly while others are more apt to whiff? By analyzing the way Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken, Orel Hershiser, and Tony LaRussa approach the game and do what they do, he finds striking similarities in intelligence, dedication, drive, and desire.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will--the #1 bestselling ultimate insider's look at the exacting craft of baseball
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