The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804190011 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dale L W Watt said A inside look, well-written and about the greatest baseball story of the last century. 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, . ren0901 said A must-read for Cubs fans. 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 "A must-read for Cubs fans" according to 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 . 016 season . 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 t
He was the co-writer of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre. . 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
Verducci’s entertaining book, he notes that the ‘construction of a championship team is granular’ and the ‘final picture is a Seurat painting’ with ‘many tiny dots of color’ and ‘millions of reasons and thousands of cascading events.’ He’s right: The artistic brush containing the power of positivity helped make the Chicago Cubs winners once more.” —The Washington Times. And to fully understand a modern-day championship team, that’s essential." —The Washington Post“The Cubs Way is a lu
Together, Epstein and Maddon proved that clubhouse culture is as important as on-base-percentage, and that intangible components like personality, vibe, and positive energy are necessary for a team to perform to their fullest potential. Verducci chronicles the playoff run that culminated in an instant classic Game Seven. 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 New York Times BestsellerWith inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verd