No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Life of Hardball

by Dick Williams and Bill Plaschke

Book Overview

Fine in Fine jacket HARD COVER. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151667284
• ISBN13: 9780151667284
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Finally, Mr No More Nice Guy has made it in Hall Of Fame

I have been a fan of Dick Willams and the San Deigo Padres for a long time.This book has been a favorite of mine! I have always admired Dick Williams for his no nonsense approach and turning losing teams into winners. This book is entertaining and provides the inside thoughts and soul searching straight from the heart.Thank you to Dick and congratulations on the hall of fame.

quite the hardball romp

honestly, my favorite baseball book of all time. chock full of anectdotes, and written in a snarly style. i hunted this down after Dick Williams got his due call to the Hall, and I am glad I did. This is a long tome too, no shirking here. very enjoyable, worth a grab.

How has the Hall of Fame overlooked this guy?

Dick Williams writes the way he managed - honest, to the point, and in your face. 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' reads with the passion that he felt for the game and leaves you with a bit of sadness at, not only the way the game has changed, by how the Dick Williams's of the world have gone unappreciated. He took three different teams to the World Series, he perhaps saved the Padres from being sold, he took the Expos (yes the Expos) to winning seasons, he delivered nothing short of a miracle in 1967 with the Red Sox and he even pushed a couple of teams to winning even the players themselves weren't sure if that's what they wanted. This isn't to mention two rings with the Oakland A's. It's sad the Hall of Fame has overlooked this guy. Not only is it a case of what more do you have to do, in the case of Dick Williams, it's what more could he have possibly done?