Hardball
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812912780 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 453 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet the passage was a tortuous one. Charles O. Finley, Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, Marvin Miller, the reserve clause, the 1981 strike, and the sanctimonious banishment of Mantle and Mays were all significant confrontations on Kuhn's watch. If the image he projected was that of an unbending stiff, his memoir, surprisingly, is anything but. Originally published in 1987, this reissue steps up with a new afterword that has Kuhn commenting on the state of the game 10 years later. Kuhn didn't always handle things smoothly, and he knows that; Hardball is a solid hit because of his willingness to analyze his failures as well as his successes and his eagerness to point fingers where he thinks he should. When he arrived on the scene, the game was in trouble; when he left, it was on a high. If Kuhn's agenda is basically a sel
The commissioner offers many colorful anecdotes and strong opinions about baseball’s greatest legends from Jackie Robinson to Howard Cosell.. When Bowie Kuhn became baseball commissioner in 1969, attendance at games was declining, labor disputes were flaring, and many teams were suffering from poor management and marketing. Kuhn had overseen tumultuous changes issuing from a challenge to the reserve clause, the 1981 strike, escalated salaries, free agency, and his controversial rulings on matters ranging from gambling to broadcasting. In Hardball Kuhn reveals how the decisions were made and forthrightly challenges his detractors. Fifteen years later, when Kuhn retired, the sport was flourishing
Bowie Kuhn in defense of Bowie Kuhn Joseph Preston Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner is, at base, a sad book about a guy who spent 15 years of his life attempting to accomplish something that had a zero percent chance of success from the start. Kuhn, you see, wanted to be Kennesaw Mountain Landis, which is fine excep. Unintentionally revealing account of Kuhn's tenure The reader should come away from an autobiography with an understanding of the author's personality and his place in the world. By that standard, Bowie Kuhn's autobiography is a success: on nearly every page, he reveals that even in retrospect he doesn't understand what happened whil. Kuhn's self-serving account of his years as MLB Commissioner A Customer Plainly, Mr. Kuhn would prefer that his official version of events in baseball from the late 60s into the 80s prevail, despite the popular notion that he was overdrawn at the clue bank during much of that period. His account of labor negotations during his tenure conflicts in many re