Astroball : the new way to win it all / Ben Reiter.
"When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment, a club that didn't even appear to be trying to win. The cover story, combined with the specificity of Reiter's claim, met instant and nearly universal derision. But three years later, the critics were proved improbably, astonishingly wrong. How had Reiter predicted it so accurately? And, more important, how had the Astros pulled off the impossible?" -- Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525576648
- ISBN: 0525576649
- Physical Description: xviii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, c2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Thank you for the laugh -- Prologue: The judge -- Chapter 1: Gut feels -- Chapter 2: The nerd cave -- Chapter 3: Graceful beast -- Chapter 4: Growth mindset -- Chapter 5: Peyton Manning on a surfboard -- Chapter 6: Summer of setbacks -- Chapter 7: In search of Carlos Beltrán -- Chapter 8: Two seconds to spare -- Chapter 9: The series -- Conclusion: Astroworld. |
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Subject: | Houston Astros (Baseball team) > History. Houston Astros (Baseball team) > Statistics. Baseball. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | 796.35764 R379a 2018 (Text) | 33126020898700 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |