Pascarelli, Peter

• The Toughest Job in Baseball

  • This book concentrates on the manager's role in baseball, specifically by following the trials and tribulations of one of the most widely-respected managers in the game, Jim Leyland. There are a great many insights I've seen here not present in other baseball books, like a great description of the relationship between the team and the beat writers, the feelings of a manager who protects a player only to be badmouthed by that same player after a trade, the decisions on playing time, promotions, demotions. It's all there and well written, to boot. This is the kind of book that is not only a good read, but it actually makes baseball more enjoyable to watch.

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