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100 1 $aBissinger, Buzz,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90626440
245 10 $aThree nights in August :$bstrategy, heartbreak, and joy, inside the mind of a manager /$cBuzz Bissinger ; [foreword by Tony La Russa].
246 3 $a3 nights in August
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2005.
300 $axxi, 280 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.
520 1 $a"A Pulitzer Prize-winning author captures baseball's strategic and emotional essences through a point-blank account of one three-game series viewed through the keen eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa. Drawing on unmatched access to a manager and his team, Buzz Bissinger brings the same revelatory intimacy to major league baseball that he did to high school football in his classic bestseller, Friday Night Lights." "Three Nights in August shows thrillingly that human nature - not statistics - can often dictate the outcome of a ball game. We watch from the dugout as the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrivals, the Chicago Cubs, for first place, and we uncover delicious surprises about the psychology of the clutch, the eccentricities of pitchers, the rise of video, and the complex art of retaliation when a batter is hit by a pitch. Through the lens of these games, Bissinger examines the dramatic changes that have overtaken baseball: from the decline of base stealing to the difficulty of motivating players to the rise of steroid use. More tellingly, he distills from these twenty-seven innings baseball's constants - its tactical nuances, its emotional pull."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aSt. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004153
610 20 $aChicago Cubs (Baseball team)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80109967
600 10 $aLa Russa, Tony.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003092518
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