Winning fixes everything : how baseball's brightest minds created sports' biggest mess /
Drellich, Evan, 1987-
Winning fixes everything : how baseball's brightest minds created sports' biggest mess / Evan Drellich. - First edition. - xvii, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- A moneyball man -- The Cardinals years -- Blood in the hallways -- An idiot strategy -- The island of misfit toys -- Radical ways -- The coup -- Validation -- Bashful and the bulldog -- In the can -- McKinney at the bat -- The hurricane -- Lines in the sand -- Here was an inefficiency -- A lion and a deer -- Pressure machine -- Incriminating evidence -- Why is it all on me? -- Logistics -- Epilogue.
"The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself." -- inside front jacket flap. "A book reporting on the rise and fall of the Houston Astros"--
9780063049048 006304904X
2022029076
Houston Astros (Baseball team)--History.
Baseball teams--History.--Texas--Houston
Baseball--Corrupt practices--History.--United States
Winning fixes everything : how baseball's brightest minds created sports' biggest mess / Evan Drellich. - First edition. - xvii, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- A moneyball man -- The Cardinals years -- Blood in the hallways -- An idiot strategy -- The island of misfit toys -- Radical ways -- The coup -- Validation -- Bashful and the bulldog -- In the can -- McKinney at the bat -- The hurricane -- Lines in the sand -- Here was an inefficiency -- A lion and a deer -- Pressure machine -- Incriminating evidence -- Why is it all on me? -- Logistics -- Epilogue.
"The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself." -- inside front jacket flap. "A book reporting on the rise and fall of the Houston Astros"--
9780063049048 006304904X
2022029076
Houston Astros (Baseball team)--History.
Baseball teams--History.--Texas--Houston
Baseball--Corrupt practices--History.--United States