Easy to Read Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
by Evan Drellich
Overview :
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal offers an in-depth exploration of the team and Major League Baseball to uncover how a heralded organization could become so dishonest.As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates took over Major League Baseball, one franchise set out to create a new blueprint, to build a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside business world.?In less than a decade, the Houston Astros both revolutionized the game and created a culture that led to one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history, a Shakespearean tragedy of innovation and change management. Through years of extensive interviews, former Astros beat writer Evan Drellich delivers the definitive account of baseball?s most controversial franchise, an in-depth dissection of the way a modern baseball team truly works, from ownership down to the clubhouse?without the usual myth spinning.?Drellich shows the rise and fall of the Astros to be a collision of
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