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In the time of Bobby Cox : the Atlanta Braves, their manager, my couch, two decades, and me / Lang Whitaker.
- Title
- In the time of Bobby Cox : the Atlanta Braves, their manager, my couch, two decades, and me / Lang Whitaker.
- Author
- Whitaker, Lang.
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | GV875.A8 W48 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 230 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A noted sports commentator offers a fan's chronicle of the Atlanta Braves baseball team under the management of Bobby Cox and describes the lessons he has learned during the twenty years that Cox managed the highly successful team.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Emotion: how Greg Maddux is like traveling cross-country with your grandparents -- Faith: how Greg Norton is like playing on a terrible basketball team -- Persistence: how Mark Lemke is like managing a high school baseball team -- Consistency: how Chipper Jones is like going to college -- Failure: how David Justice is like starring in a commercial for a gas station -- Intermission -- Greatness: how Deion Sanders is like Ted Turner -- Adapting: how Jeff Francoeur is like teaching yourself to cook -- Communicating: how Andruw Jones is like your grandmother dying -- Patience: how Tom Glavine is like going on safari in Africa -- Hope: how Jason Heyward is like starting a family.
- ISBN
- 9781439148389
- 1439148384
- LCCN
- ^^2010036177
- OCLC
- 646112732
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library