The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525492984 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 421 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those dual qualities make him the perfect guy to not only capture the experience of what the Cubs at long last achieved, but to explain the thinking and planning that led to last Fall's crescendo of emotions.” —Bob Costas"Verducci, a longtime baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, is perhaps the perfect scribe to tell this definitive tale, a generational talent who can talk numbers and remain awed at the game’s beauties. Will“Few who have covered the game in any era can match Tom Verducci's combination of baseball insight and elegance as a writer. The longtime Sports Illustrated veteran delivers in a big way with unique analysis that takes a deep, deep dive in trying to explain the wizardry o
Tom Verducci is Sports Illustrated's senior baseball writer and a three-time winner of the National Sportswriter of the Year Award. He is also a two-time Emmy Award-winning game and studio analyst for FOX Sports and MLB Network. . He was the co-writer of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre
The Cubs Way is a celebration of an iconic team and its journey to a World Championship that fans and readers will cherish for years to come.. Leading the organization with a manual called "The Cubs Way," he focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry as well as statistics. To accomplish his goal, Epstein needed manager Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs' bench. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team composed of unknown
"A inside look, well-written and about the greatest baseball story of the last century" according to Dale L W Watt. This book is the real deal inside-story. Verducci was there through it all, he clearly did thorough interviews and research with everyone involved after the fact, and he sets up the time to tell his story the way he wants to. There are so many details here it's beautifully hard to take it all in, and a. A must-read for Cubs fans ren0901 A terrific read (& listen - also purchased the Audible version) just five months after the epic game 7. Verducci does a terrific job interspacing World Series games with individual stories on how the Cubs team came to be. So much inside and background information helps me treasure the 2016 season even . RECALIBRATE IN 17 MINUTES Last night at Major League Baseball’s All-Star game, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon led the National League’s elites to a narrow loss, 2 to 1, in an extra-inning pitchers battle. (You think your job is challenging? Imagine trying to coalesce big egos and big bats into one harmonious team i