Winning fixes everything : how baseball's brightest minds created sports' biggest mess / Evan Drellich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drellich, Evan, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houston Astros (Baseball team)--History.

Houston Astros (Baseball team).

Baseball teams--Texas--Houston--History.

Baseball teams.

Baseball--Corrupt practices--United States--History.

Baseball.

essays.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 345 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Moneyball Man

2. The Cardinals Years

3. Blood in the Hallways

4. An Idiot Strategy

5. The Island of Misfit Toys

6. Radical Ways

7. The Coup

8. Validation

9. Bashful and the Bulldog

10. In the Can

11. McKinsey at the Bat

12. The Hurricane

13. Lines in the Sand

14. Here Was an Inefficiency

15. A Lion and a Deer

16. Pressure Machine

17. Incriminating Evidence

18. Why Is It All on Me?

19. Logistics.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Drellich, Evan, 1987- Winning fixes everything

ISBN:

9780063049048

006304904X

OCLC:

1336956493