Lou Piniella

Lou

Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball

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For over fifty years, Lou Piniella has been in Major League Base-ball, first as a player and later as a manager for the Yankees, the Reds, the Mariners, the Rays, and the Cubs. In this raucous memoir, Piniella opens up about his lifetime in the game, telling stories about wins, losses, and getting in umpires’ faces. Tracing his career, he discusses the wild years of the Bronx Zoo, a time when personalities like George Steinbrenner, Reggie Jackson, and Billy Martin made the Yankee locker room the most controversial place in baseball.But New York was just the start. From winning a World Series with the Reds, to transforming the Mariners into a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Madden, Bill

ISBN: 978-0-06-267096-0
EAN: 9780062670960
Produktnummer: 20632424
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 512 S.
Ausstattung: Grossdruck-Ausg.

Über den Autor

Lou Piniella has been a part of Major League Baseball for over fifty years. In that time, he played for the Orioles, the Indians, the Royals, and the Yankees, and managed for the Yankees, the Reds, the Mariners, the Rays, and the Cubs. He is fourteenth on the list of all-time MLB managerial wins. He is currently a senior advisor to the Cincinnati Reds organization. He lives in Tampa, Florida.Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News for more than forty years. In 2010, Madden was the recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s J. G. Taylor Spink Award. He has written several books about baseball, including the New York Times bestseller Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball.