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Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Date
- 2023-02-14
- Signed
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- ISBN
- 9780063049048
- Book Title
- Winning Fixes Everything : How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal offers an in-depth exploration of the team and Major League Baseball to uncover how a heralded organization could become so dishonest. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates took over Major League Baseball, one franchise set out to create a new blueprint, to build a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside business world. In less than a decade, the Houston Astros both revolutionized the game and created a culture that led to one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history, a Shakespearean tragedy of innovation and change management. Through years of extensive interviews, former Astros beat writer Evan Drellich delivers the definitive account of baseball's most controversial franchise, an in-depth dissection of the way a modern baseball team truly works, from ownership down to the clubhouse-without the usual myth spinning. Drellich shows the rise and fall of the Astros to be a collision of subcultures. The team's top boss was a former McKinsey consultant who lived on the bleeding edge with no guardrails. Baseball players themselves have long sought every possible advantage, but baseball's commissioner seemed to forget that fact, despite his experience with the sport's infamous performance-enhancing drug scandals. All of it came at a cost to fans, employees and the sport on a whole. But as Winning Fixes Everything makes clear, "The Astros Way" isn't going anywhere. Drellich uses the saga of the Astros' scandal to detail the evolution of baseball itself, and the way business is conducted inside the game today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006304904x
ISBN-13
9780063049048
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050034996
Product Key Features
Book Title
Winning Fixes Everything : How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv875.H64d74 2023
Reviews
"This is the real story of the most fascinating team in baseball, and nobody can tell it better than Evan Drellich. From the Houston Astros' cheating scandal to the people who oversaw it, Winning Fixes Everything shows what bad culture run amok looks like--and offers lessons for every business, baseball or otherwise." -- Jeff Passan, Senior MLB Insider at ESPN and New York Times bestselling author of The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports "This is the riveting inside account of the rise and spectacular fall of baseball's most controversial franchise. Evan Drellich's Winning Fixes Everything isn't just a terrific baseball book; the story of the Houston Astros' under Jeff Luhnow is also one the great corporate dramas of our era. It's an Icarus tale of how a renegade executive heralded as the best and brightest succumbed to greed, hubris, and unchecked ambition--a failure of leadership that destroyed everything he'd built in the blink of an eye." -- Joshua Green, national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek and author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency "Evan Drellich's gumshoe reporting delivers the goods, taking us behind the scenes of one of baseball's most cynical scandals. The drama he unfolds, of management consultants hell-bent on turning America's pastime into an arms race of surveillance technology, has the intrigue of a spy novel and the doomed grandeur of a tragedy. It is a dark fable for our data-maddened times." -- Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck and The Inner Coast "Evan Drellich got to the bottom of the Astros' illegal sign-stealing because he knew of the problem and couldn't let it go. That same energy,curiosity, and dogged reporting led to an even bigger story--the one he tells in this book. Winning Fixes Everything is the definitive account not just of the Astros' misconduct but also of how baseball operated over the past decade, how front offices sought every possible edge. To understand the Astros' behavior, one must also understand the environment that would lead a team to consider crossing such a line. Once again, Drellich has the answers." -- KEN ROSENTHAL, senior writer for The Athletic and field reporter for FOX Sports
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