An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful
anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the
World Series. In "Paths to Glory," Mark L. Armour and Daniel R.
Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What
makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917
White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams
different? What makes each championship team a unique product of
its time? Armour and Levitt provide the historical context to show
how the sport's business side has changed dramatically but its
competitive environment remains the same.Utilizing new statistics
to evaluate a player's value and career patterns, Armour and Levitt
explore the teams that took risks, created their own opportunities,
and changed the game. How did the Washington Senators achieve the
unthinkable and blow past Babe Ruth's Yankees in 1924 and 1925? How
did the 1965 Minnesota Twins quickly rise to the top and why did
they just as suddenly fall? Did Charlie Finley assemble the last
old-fashioned championship team before free agency, or was the
Moustache Gang another example of winning by building from within?
Why did the star-laden Red Sox of the 1930s keep falling short? In
exploring these teams and more, Armour and Levitt analyze the
players, the managers, and the executives who built teams to win
and then lived with the consequences.
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