"I managed good, but boy did they play bad"

Baseball managers are different from you and me. One manager used to give signals from the third base coaching box while standing on his head. Another would announce the between-games menu during the first game of a doubleheader. ("Men, between games of this doubleheader, we have a choice of ha...

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Main Author: Bouton, Jim,
Other Authors: Offen, Neil.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chicago : Playboy Press, 1973.
Physical Description: xxiii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
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505 0 |a Rocky Bridges: "I managed good, but boy did they play bad," by G. Rogin.--John McGraw: The glory of his time, by L. Ritter. From the bench, by C. Mathewson.--Casey Stengel: Musings of a dugout Socrates, by G. Millstein. The last angry old man, by E. Linn.--Ralph Houk, Yogi Berra, Johnny Keane: Which of us took the greater fall? By B. Veeck.--A locker room view, by J. Bouton.--Connie Mack: Cornelius McGillicuddy -- Mr. Mack, by B. Considine.--Walter Alston: Manager with a hair shirt, by M. Durslag.--Leo Durocher: "They ain't getting no maiden," by R. Kahn. How Durocher blew the pennant, by W.B. Furlong.--Charlie Dressen: Advisor to Presidents, by J. Lardner.--Squawks Magrew: You could look it up, by J. Thurber.--Joe McCarthy: Nobody's neutral, by E. Fitzgerald.--Dick Williams: How Dick Williams became the world champion manager, by J. Bouton.--George Stallings: The miracle man, by T. Meany.--Joe Schultz: The manager who wasn't, by J. Bouton. 
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