Joe Maddon's Books

The Book of Joe

Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

By: Joe Maddon,Tom Verducci

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The Book of Joe

Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

By: Joe Maddon,Tom Verducci

Lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB Manager of the Year Joe Maddon. No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it through his trademark glasses and irrepressible wit. Raised in the “shot and beer” town of Hazleton, PA, and forged by 15 years in the minors, Maddon over 19 seasons in Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Anaheim has become one of the most successful, most colorful, and most quoted managers in Major League Baseball. He is a workplace culture expert, having engineered two of the most stunning turnarounds in the past quarter century: taking the Rays from the worst record in baseball one year to the World Series the next and leading the Cubs to their first World Series title in 108 years. Like his teams, Maddon defies convention. He is part strategist, part philosopher, part sports psychologist, and part motivational coach. In THE BOOK OF JOE, Maddon gives readers unique insights into the game, including the tension between art and data, the changing role of managers as front offices gain power, why the honeymoon with the Cubs did not last, and what it’s like to manage the modern player, including stars such as Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Yu Darvish, and Kris Bryant. But you expect even more from a manager who meditates daily, admires Twain, and has only one rule when it comes to a team dress code: “If you think you look hot, wear it!” And Maddon delivers. Built on-old school values and new-school methods, his wisdom applies beyond the dugout. His mantras about leadership, mentorship, team building, and communication are meditations on life, not just baseball. Among those mantras are: “Do simple better.” “Try not to suck.” “Don’t ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.” “See it with first-time eyes.” “Tell me what you think, not what you’ve heard.” THE BOOK OF JOE is Maddon at his uniquely holistic best. It is a memoir of a fascinating baseball journey, an insider’s look at a changing game, and a guidebook on leadership and life.

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Twelve

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153875178X

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The Book of Joe

Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

By: Joe Maddon,Tom Verducci

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Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

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100 Things Angels Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Joe Haakenson

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100 Things Angels Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Joe Haakenson

Inspired by and written for the devout Angels fan, this lively and detailed book explores important facts and figures from the baseball team's storied history. Decades of tradition, victories and defeats, name revisions, and Hall of Fame inductions are distilled into an entertaining list that journeys from one to 100 into what makes a true fan of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. From the essentials, such as the Nolan Ryan era, to the lesser-known tidbits, including the team's origin and what started the Rally Monkey, this book is the ultimate resource to Angels knowledge and trivia and even suggests the best places to eat and drink before a game.

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273

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Triumph Books

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1623682355

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9781623682354

The Franchise: New York Yankees

A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers

By: Mark Feinsand,Joe Torre

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The Franchise: New York Yankees

A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers

By: Mark Feinsand,Joe Torre

In The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball's most successful team. This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans' history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Yankees' iconic identity. Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it'll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come. Yankees fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.

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290

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Triumph Books

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1637270399

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9781637270394

The Immaculate Inning

Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats

By: Joe Cox

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The Immaculate Inning

Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats

By: Joe Cox

The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selection of the most unusual, significant, and rare feats in baseball history, both in the context of single-day (and sometimes even single-play) events and those that require a longer streak or a full season’s excellence to reach or complete, the book clearly defines how each task is amassed, provides historical background, and tells riveting stories of the ballplayers that did the unthinkable.

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305

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493032135

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Why We Love Baseball

A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

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Why We Love Baseball

A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective. Whether of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher who gave up the home run, the umpire, the coach, the opposing player—these are fresh takes on moments so powerful they almost feel like myth. Posnanski’s previous book, The Baseball 100, portrayed the heroes and pioneers of the sport, and now, with his trademark wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and acute observations, he gets at the real heart of the game. From nineteenth-century pitchers’ duels to breaking the sport’s color line in the ’40s, all the way to the greatest trick play of the last decade and the slide home that became a meme, Posnanski’s illuminating take allows us to rediscover the sport we love—and thought we knew. Why We Love Baseball is an epic that ends too soon, a one-of-a-kind love letter to the sport that has us thrilled, torn, inspired, and always wanting more.

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401

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Penguin

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0593472675

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9780593472675

2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

By: Joe Clemens

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2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

By: Joe Clemens

With a more limited supply of baseball card sets on the market, and 20 of the 30 professional U.S. baseball teams reporting increases in attendance in the last year and a half, there's no doubt that this is your season, card collector. No one understands this better than the staff of Sports Collectors Digest, the voice of the hobby and the experts responsible for the reliable and thoroughly researched pricing you'll find in 2008 Baseball Card Price Guide. This one-of-a-kind modern card reference must-have contains nearly 400,000 cards, including packs and boxes, inserts, parallels and rare variations.

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1414

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Krause Publications

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0896896188

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9780896896185

Book's by Joe Maddon

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The Book of Joe

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The Book of Joe

100 Things Angels Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

100 Things Angels Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

The Franchise: New York Yankees

The Franchise: New York Yankees

The Immaculate Inning

The Immaculate Inning

Why We Love Baseball

Why We Love Baseball

2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

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