About this title: "There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand at a crucial point in the game and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do." The coach's message was not ...
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Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2005-05-16
ISBN-13:9780393060911ISBN:0393060918
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 4/7/2008
ISBN-13:9780393331134ISBN:039333113X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393060911ISBN:0393060918
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Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393060911ISBN:0393060918
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"This was really just a long essay that took all of an hour to read. Not bad, and a few passages -- especially one when he remembers an experience with his coach when he was a freshman -- that absolutely sing."
"Really fast read, I read it in one sitting. Great commentary on life, but more specifically on youth sports today. I think all parents should read this, as well as coaches and teachers. Parents today go to bat for their children FAR FAR too often. We all need to learn to take a step back and let the kids play."
"Great book on what athletics can teach you about life. I was lucky enough to have two coaches like this guy in high school. I still hated them at the time, though."
"A quick (30-minute) read but great insight into one of the traps of modern parenthood--overprotecting your child and not letting them learn lessons the hard way"
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