Astroball : the new way to win it all /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | "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?" -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780525576648 0525576649 9780525576655 0525576657 |