Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
by Buzz Bissinger
List Price:
Our Price: $3.45
You Save: $10.50 (75%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Buzz BissingerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN: 0618710531
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Reviews of Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
Book Review: Great insight into leadership
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've ever wondered what it takes to be a leader -- the commitment, the focus, the almost obsessive compulsion that drives excellence then this book is a great backdrop. La Russa demonstrates what it takes to lead a team at such an elite level, the impact winning and losing has on his players and himself and how he develops the talent and manages ego...sounds eerily similar to the business world.
Summary of Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's quintessential form, the three-game series. As the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the shrewdest mind in the game today. In his twenty-seven years of managing, La Russa has been named Manager of the Year a record-making five times and now stands as the third-winningest baseball manager of all time. A great leader, he's built his success on the conviction that ball games are won not only by the numbers but also by the hearts and minds of those who play.Drawing on unprecedented access to a major league manager and his team, Buzz Bissinger brings a revelatory intimacy to baseball and offers some surprising observations. Bissinger also furthers the debate on major league managerial style and strategy in his provocative new afterword.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in The Greatest Sports Books
Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004by Bill Simmons
ESPN; Published: 2006-09-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.04
Price in other shops:
Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illiniby Brett Dawson
Sports Publishing; Published: 2005-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.30
Price in other shops:
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalryby Will Blythe
Harper Paperbacks; Published: 2007-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.84
Price in other shops:
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2004-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.38
Price in other shops:
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Managerby Buzz Bissinger
Mariner Books; Published: 2006-04-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops:
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Maniaby Warren St. John
Crown; Published: 2004-08-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.94
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Ball Fourby Jim Bouton
Wiley; Published: 1990-07-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.88
Price in other shops:
October 1964by David Halberstam
Ballantine Books; Published: 1995-04-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
Juiced : Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Bigby Jose Canseco
Amazon Remainders Account; Published: 2005-02-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.72
Price in other shops:
Baseball Between the Numbersby Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts
Perseus Books Group; Published: 2006-03-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.08
Price in other shops:
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Lifeby Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton; Published: 2008-04-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.15
Price in other shops:
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrigby Jonathan Eig
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2006-03-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.67
Price in other shops:
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dreamby H. G. Bissinger
Da Capo Press; Published: 2000-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Gameby Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton; Published: 2007-09-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sportsby Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams
Gotham; Published: 2006-03-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2004-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.24
Price in other shops: