The Man in the Dugout: Fifteen Big League Managers Speak Their Minds
- ISBN-10
- 0803272707
- ISBN-13
- 9780803272705
- Series
- The Man in the Dugout
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 343
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Donald Honig
Description
The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball.
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