num_pages: 272
description: The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty yearsbut helped cripple the sport of baseball in the processAfter years of frustrating playoff runs the Los Angeles Dodgers finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than thirty years led by star pitcher Clayton Kershaw electric outfielder Mookie Betts and a bevy of impressive young players assembled by team president Andrew Friedman. No team is better positioned to win now and in the future.Yet winning at modern baseball is nothing like it was even twenty years ago. In the years since the famous Moneyball revolution baseball has grown to look less like a sport than a Wall Street firm that traded its boiler room for a field. Teams relentlessly chase every tiny advantage to win games and make money even as it hurts fans TV ratings and players courting bigger problems in the long run.This dramatic and insightful book takes you into the clubhouse with the championship players as well as into the offices where teams constantly seek new ways to wineven when it hurts the game. How to Beat a Broken Game shows not only what it takes to win but what it will take to save the sport.
language: English
title: How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink
publisher: PublicAffairs