The Inside Game: Baseball's Master Strategists

by William B. Mead

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924588101
• ISBN13: 9780924588105
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Redefinition, Incorporated
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An illustrated book on how to play the game with your brains

Yogi Berra once said that "Ninety percent of baseball is mental and the other half is physical." Well, "The Inside Game: Baseball's Master Strategists" is devoted to the mental health of the equation, starting with the pitching, fundamentals and three-run homer formula of Earl Weaver to the platoon management of Casey Stengel with Whitey Herzog's "Whiteyball" in between. William B. Mead's book looks at both the little elements of the game such as signals and other forms of deception along with ingenious ways of cheating or the big shift from John McGraw's "Scientific Baseball" to the new game created by Babe Ruth and the love of the long ball. The book celebrates not only the great managers from Wilbert Robinson to Dick Howser, but also relief pitchers such as Bruce Sutter, and owners like Walter O'Malley (for moving the Dodgers to L.A.). This book loves to come up with oddities, such as Tony Cuccinello, master of the hidden ball trick, and forgotten greats like Ned Hanlon, manager of the Baltimore Orioles (of the N.L.) who trained future managers McGraw, Robinson, Huggins, Hughie Jennings, Kid Gleason and more. The chief strength of this book is that it pays attention to the little things that usually get left out of books about baseball. This volume in the "World of Baseball" series is full of illustrations, mostly color photographs, and will teach you a thing or two about how the game is played.