The Bill James guide to baseball managers
Subtitle: from 1870 to today
By: Bill James.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Baseball managers -- United States -- Biography; Baseball managers -- Rating of -- United States; Baseball -- United States -- Records; Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Guide to baseball managers
Description: Consider the fact that although more than fourteen thousand men have appeared in a lineup of at least one major league baseball game, fewer than six hundred have managed one. Small though that number is, it is inflated by dozens of skippers with only a few weeks or months at the helm of a club. If we were to define "real" managers as those who have managed a thousand games - not, after all, a terribly high bar to hurdle, fewer than seven full seasons - we would find that.

Fewer than one hundred men qualify. Now Bill James, "the guru of baseball" (Newsweek), takes on the challenge of chronicling that history, including a decade-by-decade snapshot of baseball strategy from the 1870s through the 1990s.
Notes: Includes index.