| Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way Revised Edition Contributor(s): Armour, Mark L. (Author), Levitt, Daniel R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1574888056 ISBN-13: 9781574888058 Publisher: Potomac Books OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 Annotation: An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In "Paths to Glory," Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What makes each championship team a unique product of its time? Armour and Levitt provide the historical context to show how the sport's business side has changed dramatically but its competitive environment remains the same.Utilizing new statistics to evaluate a player??'s value and career patterns, Armour and Levitt explore the teams that took risks, created their own opportunities, and changed the game. How did the Washington Senators achieve the unthinkable and blow past Babe Ruth??'s Yankees in 1924 and 1925? How did the 1965 Minnesota Twins quickly rise to the top and why did they just as suddenly fall? Did Charlie Finley assemble the last old-fashioned championship team before free agency, or was the Moustache Gang another example of winning by building from within? Why did the star-laden Red Sox of the 1930s keep falling short? In exploring these teams and more, Armour and Levitt analyze the players, the managers, and the executives who built teams to win and then lived with the consequences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Sports & Recreation | Coaching - Baseball |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.02" W x 8.86" (1.21 lbs) 422 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What makes each championship team a unique product of its time? Armour and Levitt provide the historical context to show how the sport's business side has changed dramatically but its competitive environment remains the same. Utilizing new statistics to evaluate a player's value and career patterns, Armour and Levitt explore the teams that took risks, created their own opportunities, and changed the game. How did the Washington Senators achieve the unthinkable and blow past Babe Ruth's Yankees in 1924 and 1925? How did the 1965 Minnesota Twins quickly rise to the top and why did they just as suddenly fall? Did Charlie Finley assemble the last old-fashioned championship team before free agency, or was the Moustache Gang another example of winning by building from within? Why did the star-laden Red Sox of the 1930s keep falling short? In exploring these teams and more, Armour and Levitt analyze the players, the managers, and the executives who built teams to win and then lived with the consequences. |
Contributor Bio(s): Armour, Mark L.: - Mark L. Armour is the author of Paths to Glory: How Great Teams Got That Way (Brassey's 2003) and Raincheck (SABR). His forthcoming Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball will be published by UNP in Spring 2010.Levitt, Daniel R.: - Daniel R. Levitt is the author of Ed Barrow (Nebraska, 2008) and coauthor, along with Mark Armour, of In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball (Nebraska, 2015) and Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way (Potomac, 2004), winner of the Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award. He is also the author of numerous baseball articles and biographies. |