One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season - Brossura

LaRussa, Tony

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ISBN 10: 0062207547 ISBN 13: 9780062207548

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2013

Riassunto

In this exciting comeback story, the legendary baseball manager, in his first ever memoir, takes readers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Cardinals 2011 season, detailing the extraordinary journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Tony La Russa managed the St. Louis Cardinals from 1996 to 2011, as well as the Oakland A's and the Chicago White Sox. He has three World Series wins, six league championships, and five Manager of the Year awards, and is ranked third in all-time major league wins. He and his wife, Elaine, founded the Tony La Russa Animal Rescue Foundation in Walnut Creek, California. They have two daughters, Bianca and Devon.

Rick Hummel has covered baseball for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for forty years. A former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America, he has received numerous awards for his writing and has been honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

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After thirty-three seasons managing in Major League Baseball, Tony La Russa thought he had seen it all—until the 2011 Cardinals. Down ten and a half games with little more than a month to play, the Cardinals had long been ruled out as serious postseason contenders. Yet in the face of those steep odds, this team mounted one of the most dramatic and impressive comebacks in baseball history, making the playoffs on the night of the final game of the season and going on to win the World Series despite being down to their last strike—twice.

Now La Russa gives the inside story behind this astonishing comeback and his extraordinary career. One Last Strike is a passionate, insightful look at our national pastime that takes you behind the scenes of the comeback no one thought possible and inside the mind of one of the game's greatest managers.

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062207547
• ISBN 13: 9780062207548
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 420