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Astroball : the new way to win it all
- Title
- Astroball : the new way to win it all / Ben Reiter.
- Author
- Reiter, Ben
- Publication
- New York : Crown Archetype, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GV875.H64 R45 2018 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment, a club that didn't even appear to be trying to win. The cover story, combined with the specificity of Reiter's claim, met instant and nearly universal derision. But three years later, the critics were proved improbably, astonishingly wrong. How had Reiter predicted it so accurately? And, more important, how had the Astros pulled off the impossible?" --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Statistics.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Preface: Thank you for the laugh -- Prologue: The judge -- Chapter 1: Gut feels -- Chapter 2: The nerd cave -- Chapter 3: Graceful beast -- Chapter 4: Growth mindset -- Chapter 5: Peyton Manning on a surfboard -- Chapter 6: Summer of setbacks -- Chapter 7: In search of Carlos Beltrán -- Chapter 8: Two seconds to spare -- Chapter 9: The series -- Conclusion: Astroworld.
- ISBN
- 9780525576648
- 0525576649
- 9780525576655
- 0525576657
- 9780525576662 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018019954
- OCLC
- on1040073822
- SCSB-9122917
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library