Title: The Bill James guide to baseball managers
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Baseball managers, Records, Baseball, History, Biography, Rating of
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: GV863.A1 J364 1997