Man In The Dugout, The: Baseballs Top: Managers and How They Got That Way
by By Koppett, Leonard
Category: Sports & Recreation , Baseball , General

Leonard Koppett, newly elected to the writer's wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame, takes a thoughtful and lively look at the long, colorful tradition of major-league baseball managers.What sort of men are the major-league managers? What are they like? Where do they come from? How do they learn their craft? Why do some have one style and others another? And, most of all, how come some are more successful than others, more respected, more important in the history of their field?Koppett shows how the most successful and influential of the more than 500 men who have actually managed in the majors can trace their descent from three exceptional men: John McGraw, Branch Rickey, and Connie Mack. They not only fashioned modern baseball's development in the first half of the twentieth century, but their direct influence is still visible and ubiquitous in every ballpark today.Filled with anecdotes and the author's firsthand observations of the many managers he has known during his long career, The Man in the Dugout is destined to become the armchair-general's and second-guesser's bible - required reading for all fans, sports-writers, athletes, big-league managers, and would-be big-league managers.