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Buzzie and the Bull: A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Champions
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- 9781496213174
- Book Title
- Buzzie & the Bull : a GM, a Club House Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Baseball / History, General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Buzzie and the Bull chronicles a baseball year in the lives of two lifelong friends who couldn't be more different: Buzzie Bavasi, the legendary general manager of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, and Al "the Bull" Ferrara, bon vivant, fountain of joy, and bench player. Their 1965 baseball journey encompassed a thrilling pennant race settled on the final day of the season, a city engulfed in flames, a perfect game, and a GM who extolled his friend the Bull as a hero in May and then banished him from the team to the depths of public purgatory in July. The partnership of these two characters--the general manager who valued fearlessness above all else and the crazy player who loved living on the edge--became the embodiment of champions who never choked in the clutch. Over seventeen years, Bavasi's teams won eight pennants and four World Series titles. His approach deserves review, and his friendship with Ferrara illustrates the ground on which he staked his baseball career. The summer of 1965 proved Bavasi's thesis that champions are built on players with one core characteristic: nerves of steel. Buzzie and the Bull offers a counterpoint to today's focus on advanced statistical analysis that may be crowding out the important work of discovering a player's unique human qualities: the intangibles. Gauge those intangibles correctly and you get an edge--and edges help win championships.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496213173
ISBN-13
9781496213174
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050087012
Product Key Features
Book Title
Buzzie & the Bull : a GM, a Club House Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
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Gv875.L6l39 2020
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"To memorable duos in baseball history--Ruth and Gehrig, Spahn and Sain, and Abbott and Costello--now add Buzzie and the Bull . In Ken LaZebnik's masterful hands this unlikely pairing of canny executive and rambunctious player comes alive with flair and fluency."--Lee Lowenfish, author of the award-winning biography Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman, "Buzzie Bavasi was an unparalleled practitioner in the increasingly lost art of finding player talent that statistics fail to disclose, which helped win a pennant when he found it in Al Ferrara."--Bob Fontaine Jr., scouting director for the Toronto Blue Jays and former scout for the San Diego Padres, California Angels, and Seattle Mariners, "A wonderful exploration of a single baseball season told with great verve and exceptional research augmented by hours of interviews with Ferrara himself and numerous other baseball luminaries."--Brian Renvall, Library Journal, "This is an entertaining book to read and a fantastic account for the Dodgers fans."--Tom Knuppel, KNUP Sports, "Buzzie's ability to see intangibles gave him extraordinary insight into a player's makeup, as evidenced in this delightful read of Al Ferrara, who played eight years in the big leagues."--Mike Port, former vice president and general manager of the California Angels and the Boston Red Sox, "To memorable duos in baseball history--Ruth and Gehrig, Spahn and Sain, and Abbott and Costello--now add Buzzie and the Bull. In Ken LaZebnik's masterful hands this unlikely pairing of canny executive and rambunctious player comes alive with flair and fluency."--Lee Lowenfish, author of the award-winning biography Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword by Bob Bavasi Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Winter of 1964 2. Spring Training 3. April 4. May 5. June 6. July 7. August 8. September 9. October 10. Winter 11. 1966 and Beyond Epilogue: Two Lives, One Team Sources
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2020-001504
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