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Buzzie and the Bull - A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season (Hardcover)
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Buzzie and the Bull - A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season (Hardcover)
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Buzzie and the Bull chronicles a baseball year in the lives of two
lifelong friends who couldn't be more different: Buzzie Bavasi, the
legendary general manager of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers,
and Al "the Bull" Ferrara, bon vivant, fountain of joy, and bench
player. Their 1965 baseball journey encompassed a thrilling pennant
race settled on the final day of the season, a city engulfed in
flames, a perfect game, and a GM who extolled his friend the Bull
as a hero in May and then banished him from the team to the depths
of public purgatory in July. The partnership of these two
characters-the general manager who valued fearlessness above all
else and the crazy player who loved living on the edge-became the
embodiment of champions who never choked in the clutch. Over
seventeen years, Bavasi's teams won eight pennants and four World
Series titles. His approach deserves review, and his friendship
with Ferrara illustrates the ground on which he staked his baseball
career. The summer of 1965 proved Bavasi's thesis that champions
are built on players with one core characteristic: nerves of steel.
Buzzie and the Bull offers a counterpoint to today's focus on
advanced statistical analysis that may be crowding out the
important work of discovering a player's unique human qualities:
the intangibles. Gauge those intangibles correctly and you get an
edge-and edges help win championships.
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