02339cam a2200313 i 4500 606869191 TxAuBib 20221104120000.0 220609s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022026037 9781538751794 HRD 30.00 1538751798 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Maddon, Joe, 1954-, author Book of Joe. The book of Joe [BOOK] : trying not to suck at baseball & life / Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci. Book of Joe, The : trying not to suck at baseball and life. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Twelve, Hachette Book Group, 2022. xii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it through his trademark glasses and irrepressible wit. Raised in the “shot and beer” town of Hazleton, PA, and forged by 15 years in the minors, Maddon over 19 seasons in Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Anaheim has become one of the most successful, most colorful, and most quoted managers in Major League Baseball. He is a workplace culture expert, having engineered two of the most stunning turnarounds in the past quarter century: taking the Rays from the worst record in baseball one year to the World Series the next and leading the Cubs to their first World Series title in 108 years. Like his teams, Maddon defies convention. He is part strategist, part philosopher, part sports psychologist, and part motivational coach. In The Book of Joe, Maddon gives readers unique insights into the game, including the tension between art and data, the changing role of managers as front offices gain power, why the honeymoon with the Cubs did not last, and what it’s like to manage the modern player, including stars such as Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Yu Darvish, and Kris Bryant. Provided by publisher. 20221104. Maddon, Joe 1954- Baseball Management. Baseball managers United States Biography. Verducci, Tom, author.