Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball

1 Anmeldelser

5

Længde
10T 32M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Biografier

A New York Times bestseller.

Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide.

More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change—owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve—to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America’s Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game’s history—modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s.

In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball’s storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig’s career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he’s shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he’s made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time.

As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball’s continued transformation—and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning.

Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.

© 2019 William Morrow (Lydbog): 9780062933584

Release date

Lydbog: 9. juli 2019

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity Michael Meyer
  2. You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television Al Michaels
  3. The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire Linda Himelstein
  4. Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling Jeff Porter
  5. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created Jane Leavy
  6. Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight Joe Pappalardo
  7. Chuck Noll: His Life's Work Michael MacCambridge
  8. April 1865: The Tumultuous History of the Confederacy’s Last Month Charles River Editors
  9. God's Story in 66 Verses: Understand the Entire Bible by Focusing on Just One Verse in Each Book Stan Guthrie
  10. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries Volume 1 Charles William Heckethorn
  11. My Journeys in Economic Theory Edmund Phelps
  12. Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa Edmond J. Keller
  13. America’s Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam Charles River Editors
  14. The Russian Revolution: The Catastrophe!: An Insider's Account Alexander Kerensky
  15. Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus Jonathan Calvert
  16. American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence Jane Hampton Cook
  17. The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War Michael S. Sherry
  18. Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America Ruth Gruber
  19. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer: A Confederate Staff Officer's Memoir: Battling Through the American Civil War G. Moxley Sorrel
  20. Epic: Stories of Survival From The World’s Highest Peaks Alfred Lansing
  21. Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Emily Pears
  22. Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia Joe Studwell
  23. Tyre & Carthage: The History of the Phoenician Cities that Dominated the Mediterranean for Centuries Charles River Editors
  24. The Diseasing of America's Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control Dr. John Rosemond
  25. Crowded Land of Liberty: Solving America’s Immigration Crisis Dirk Chase Eldredge
  26. Pilate and Jesus Giorgio Agamben
  27. The NKJV, MacArthur Daily Bible Audio, 2nd Edition: A Journey Through God's Word in One Year Thomas Nelson
  28. The Culture of Contentment John Kenneth Galbraith
  29. This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild Nate Schweber
  30. On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman
  31. Conversations with Kennedy Benjamin C. Bradlee
  32. Chronicles of the Past: A History Nerds Book Bundle History Nerds
  33. Artists and Scientists: Biographies of Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, and More Kelly Mass
  34. Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare David L. Sloss
  35. Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America Nancy L. Rosenblum
  36. Mid-Course Correction: Re-Ordering Your Private World for the Second Half of Life Gordon MacDonald
  37. Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures Annette Damayanti Lienau
  38. Tremendous Trifles G. K. Chesterton
  39. What It Takes: The Way to the White House Richard Ben Cramer
  40. Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime Eliot A. Cohen
  41. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf
  42. Truth Aflame: A Balanced Theology for Evangelicals and Charismatics Larry D. Hart
  43. A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future Daniel C. Esty
  44. Civil War Commando: William Cushing and the Daring Raid to Sink the Ironclad CSS Albemarle Jerome Preisler
  45. A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting Saskia Coenen Snyder

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet