Weaver on Strategy: The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team

by Terry Pluto and Earl Weaver

Book Overview

During his career as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver was called "baseball's resident genius." His distinctive style of managing helped his teams finish first or second thirteen times in his seventeen years as a manager. This volume reveals Weaver's approach to the game, with a focus on how to manage a roster, a lineup, and a pitching staff. He defines the differences between running a team during a single game and managing it during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574884247
• ISBN13: 9781574884241
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Classic primer on strategy

Obviously, a great book, long out of print (I hunted it down for years). Weaver is both in depth and general, and this creates a problem - is it for the casual baseball fan or the die-hard baseball fan? O's fans will love the unintentional trip down memory lane. Statnerds, batter-pitcher matchups were new once.