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"With every . . . baseball book, Don Honig heaps delight on top of pleasure. . . . [He] has worked the vein with skill and taste and enthusiasm ... More

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Veteran sportswriter Leonard Koppett takes a lively, thoughtful look at the most successful and influential baseball managers of the modern era. ... More

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Originally published: Champaign, IL: News-Gazette, 2010.

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Biographical sketches of five NBL and ABL team managers: Danny Murtaugh, Sparky Anderson, Frank Robinson, Walt Alston, and Billy Martin.

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The New York Clipper (according to its masthead The Oldest American Sporting and Theatrical Journal) was the standard bearer of sports weeklies ... More

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Charlie Metro's career runs the gamut of the specialties found in baseball-player, coach, manager, scout, inventor. Metro has lived baseball at every ... More

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Alfonso Ramon Lopez spent 36 years in the big leagues as a catcher and manager. He had a .261 lifetime batting average, compiled 1,547 hits and ... More

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As a player and as a manager, John McGraw came to beat you, and he usually did. If winning could be done within the rules, that was fine; but he ... More

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-- Why is baseball the only team sport whose managers wear a uniform? -- Which two managers have led three different teams to the World Series? -- ... More

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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But ... More

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Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined ... More

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Baseball player and manager Hugh Ambrose Jennings was the kind of colorful personality who inspired nicknames. Sportswriters called him ?Ee-yah? for ... More

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The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Chicago ... More

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Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis ... More

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