One last strike : fifty years in baseball, ten and a half, games back, and one final champiionship season /
La Russa, Tony
One last strike : fifty years in baseball, ten and a half, games back, and one final champiionship season / Tony La Russa with Rick Hummel - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2012. - 420 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Foreword -- PART I -- 1 Going the distance -- 2 Spring starts at zero -- 3 Opening Day -- 4 The surge -- 5 The storm -- 6 Buyer or seller -- 7 Tough decisions -- 8 Sliding -- 9 The comeback -- 10 The big close -- PART II -- 11 Seeing things in a new light -- 12 Turning pages -- 13 Split -- 14 Hang in there -- 15 Brothers in Arms -- PART III -- 16 Hold 'Em right here -- 17 The right kind of bull -- 18 Making it happen -- PART IV -- 19 Back again -- 20 Run not hide -- 21 The middle on the road -- 22 You had to see it for yourself -- 23 We're history -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- Index.
he legendary baseball manager takes readers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Cardinals' 2011 season, detailing a journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time.
9780062207548
LA RUSSA, TONY
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (BASEBALL TEAM)
BASEBALL MANAGERS--MISSOURI--ST. LOUIS--BIOGRAPHY
GV 865 .L37 2012
One last strike : fifty years in baseball, ten and a half, games back, and one final champiionship season / Tony La Russa with Rick Hummel - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2012. - 420 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Foreword -- PART I -- 1 Going the distance -- 2 Spring starts at zero -- 3 Opening Day -- 4 The surge -- 5 The storm -- 6 Buyer or seller -- 7 Tough decisions -- 8 Sliding -- 9 The comeback -- 10 The big close -- PART II -- 11 Seeing things in a new light -- 12 Turning pages -- 13 Split -- 14 Hang in there -- 15 Brothers in Arms -- PART III -- 16 Hold 'Em right here -- 17 The right kind of bull -- 18 Making it happen -- PART IV -- 19 Back again -- 20 Run not hide -- 21 The middle on the road -- 22 You had to see it for yourself -- 23 We're history -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- Index.
he legendary baseball manager takes readers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Cardinals' 2011 season, detailing a journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time.
9780062207548
LA RUSSA, TONY
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (BASEBALL TEAM)
BASEBALL MANAGERS--MISSOURI--ST. LOUIS--BIOGRAPHY
GV 865 .L37 2012
