For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball (Paperback)

Bud Selig

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, NY, 2020

0062905961 / 9780062905963

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Paperback. A New York Times bestsellerForeword by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to changeowners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolveto compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain Americas Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the games historymodernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseballs storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Seligs career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations hes shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls hes made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time.As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseballs continued transformationand why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball (Paperback)
Autore
Bud Selig
Editore
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, NY
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0062905961
ISBN 13
9780062905963

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