You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life

by Yogi Berra

Book Overview

The most valuable team player in sports shows you what "teamwork" really means
What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470079924
• ISBN13: 9780470079928
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Best Book Dealing With Teamwork, Period!

If everyone dealing with sports, professional or kids, were to read this, then perhaps the world of sports wouldn't be in the mess it is today. Yogi Berra deals out something the world has been short on for a long, long time . . . common sense. And it's refreshing to read. His other books are chock full of it, and this one deals in particular with the necessity of teamwork as only Yogi can tell it. And no one knows the importance better than Yogi, who has more World Series rings than anyone and is a D-Day survivor. We need to do more than read his books, we need to learn his lessons. Yogi is a Hall of Famer in baseball, true, but his books prove to us that he is a Hall of Famer in life as well, and a life's model to us all.

entertaining

I enjoyed both the historical journey and the Yogi-isms in this book. Not a lot of meat; but enjoyable.

Yogi again surprise with his insight and real wisdom

This book is a little different. It is not filled with Yogi quotes like in the book "I Never said half the things I said" but it does have his typical humor. It is a great book for a Yankee fan like me who followed and watched the great Yankee teams of the 50s and 60s that Yogi played on. The theme of the book is that too many modern players are selfish and that no matter how great an individual player might be it takes team work and unselfishness by the whole team to make a champion. Yogi describes this in players like Mantle, Ford, Reynolds and DiMaggio from his era but he also sees it in guys like Paul O'Neill and Scott Brosius from the 1998 Yankees, perhaps the best baseball team ever! I wasn't expecting it but Yogi also saw it in the 2004 Red Sox and pointed to an unselfish act by Tim Wakefield that he thought was the key to their comeback against the Yankees. It was not something that many fans or broadcasters would have noticed but Terry Francona and his Red Sox teammates did.

This is true Yogi!

We need to have every young ballplayer read, and hopefully understand the message that Yogi is passing on based on his years of experience! Team work is as important now as it was back "in the day" and the young individuals of today need to understand that. It is a great book, well worth the time to read.