Men at Work
The Craft of Baseball
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 13, 2010
#1 New York Times Bestseller "A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle." —Seattle Times In his classic tribute to America's pastime, political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love.
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- Who it’s for
- A thoughtful look at how managing, pitching, hitting, and fielding make baseball a subtle spectacle.
- Themes
- Professional baseball, Baseball skills and strategy
- Genres
- Baseball Essays, Sports Lives, Baseball History
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle." —Seattle Times In his classic tribute to America's pastime, political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love.
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He breaks down the sport to its four basic components, managing, pitching, hitting, and fielding, and analyzes the way four of its notables, manager Tony La Russa, pitcher Orel Hershiser, outfielder Tony Gwynn, and shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., approach the game. One of the most acclaimed sports books ever written, Men at Work is a revelatory, and often surprising, study of professional baseball.
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A thoughtful look at how managing, pitching, hitting, and fielding make baseball a subtle spectacle.
Come here for
- The craft behind baseball’s four basic components
- A journalist’s close attention to the game’s finer points
Expect
- Analysis of four notable players’ approaches to the game
- A study of professional baseball, from field to locker room
Where it sits
| Baseball Essays | 84% |
|---|---|
| Sports Lives | 28% |
| Baseball History | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century America
- 21st-Century America
- 20th-Century History
- Baseball
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- Baseball Coaching
- Baseball Essays
- Baseball History
- Baseball Statistics
- Authors
- George F. Will
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 13, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Professional baseball · Baseball skills and strategy
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century America