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My Turn at Bat
After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.
Alou
Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series. In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become a doctor, and an improbable turn of events that led to the pro contract. Battling racism in the United States and political turmoil in his home country, Alou persevered, paving the way for his brothers and scores of other Dominicans, including his son Moisés. Alou played seventeen years in the Major Leagues, accumulating more than two thousand hits and two hundred home runs, and then managed for another fourteen years—four with the San Francisco Giants and ten with the Montreal Expos, where he became the winningest manager in franchise history. Alou’s pioneering journey is embedded in the history of baseball, the Dominican Republic, and a remarkable family. Purchase the audio edition.
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders
BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why...why...why? Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the wors...
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Negotiating So Everyone Wins
Every day, people make deals that matter. But very few of us benefit from the public scrutiny and analysis that have helped Canada's leading negotiation experts hone their craft. Hockey team executives, cabinet ministers, bank presidents and labour leaders are constantly under the microscope, and they have learned what it takes to build agreements where everyone wins. And they can help all of us do the same. After a long career in politics, David Dingwall has become one of Canada's leading experts on negotiating. As a visiting professor at Ryerson University, he lectures on the subject of negotiation. He has sought out the experience and advice of Canada's top negotiators in order to develop...
In the Best Interests of Baseball
"The season's best book so far gets right to the heart of the game's survival at the organizational level." —The Boston Globe "A compelling examination of the national pastime as seen through the prism of the commissioner's office." —The Wall Street Journal "A thoughtful and objective analysis of baseball's labor and economic policy evolution. Interesting, relevant, and a good read." — Randy Levine, President of the New York Yankees and former chief labor negotiator for MLB "A tour de force. It's an incredibly interesting read that ends with a vision for the sport that is squarely on target and a clarion call to our industry." — John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and m...
Il était une fois les Expos - L’intégrale : 1969-2004
Avec Marc Robitaille, Jacques Doucet a livré la première histoire complète des Expos de Montréal, racontée de la genèse du club jusqu’au départ de la concession pour Washington, en 2004. Ce témoignage coloré, émouvant, passionnant, surprenant, basé sur les individus qui l’ont marquée, représente un document exceptionnel à plus d’un titre. Grâce à nos deux complices, les amateurs se sont remémoré des événements marquants de l’histoire de « nos Amours », mais sous un jour nouveau, grâce à l’éclairage inédit de Jacques Doucet, précieux témoin de l’intérieur. Sa mémoire prodigieuse, sa connaissance intime du jeu, sa passion pour le club dont il a décrit plus de 5 000 matchs, tout ce bagage constitue un véritable trésor pour les amateurs de baseball et amoureux des Expos. Toute une époque du sport professionnel montréalais revisité avec humour et nostalgie par un gentleman des ondes et un écrivain de grand talent, livrée aujourd’hui dans une édition définitive d’un seul tome, à l’heure où l’on a jamais autant parlé du retour de moins en moins improbable d’une équipe de baseball des ligues majeures à Montréal.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.
More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of al...
Il était une fois les Expos T2
• « Truffé de détails qui sont tour à tour intéressants, truculents, comiques, émouvants, emballants, nostalgiques, c’est un livre qui est aussi très “vivant”. En plus de tracer des portraits en détail, il nous fait suivre les palpitations de chaque saison. On y est. C’est en même temps un vrai travail de journalisme qui trace le portrait global de l’industrie du baseball, de ses relations de travail, de ses triomphes et de ses difficultés. C’est un livre d’histoire. « Ce livre a un défaut, et c’est un défaut majeur : il se termine. » - Christian Tétreault, animateur radio et auteur • « Les auteurs font un condensé remarquable de l’histoire des Expos en...
