For OVER fifty years, Lou Piniella has been a fixture in Major
League Baseball, making a name for himself first as a player on the
legendary New York Yankees of the 1970s and later as a manager for
five different teams: the Yankees, the Reds, the Mariners, the
Rays, and the Cubs.Now, in this raucous and entertaining memoir,
Piniella opens up about his lifetime in the game, telling
never-before-heard stories about electrifying wins, painful losses,
and why sometimes your only option is to get in an umpire's face.
Tracing his baseball life from its journeyman beginnings in the
minors, he discusses how he came of age as a player during the wild
years of the Bronx Zoo, when personalities like Reggie Jackson,
Thurman Munson, Catfish Hunter, and Billy Martin made the Yankee
locker room the most controversial and colorful place in baseball.
With surprising candor, he details his close yet often contentious
reltionship with George Steinbrenner, offering a unique portrait of
one of the game's most provocative figures, a man who mentored and
supported Lou as a player and a manager while ultimately making
life with the Yankees unsustainable for him. Stormy as his time in
New York was, it was only the start of Lou's fiery career. From
managing the Cincinnati Reds and their divisive owner, Marge
Schott, to a World Series win, to transforming the perennially
cellar-dwelling Seattle Mariners into one of the league's best
teams, he recalls his experiences-both hilarious and
heartbreaking-with some of the brightest stars from the last
twenty-five years, including Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, and
Ichiro Suzuki. For the first time, Lou also describes his important
but little-known friendship with Alex Rodriguez, sharing how they
formed a connection early in Alex's time with Seattle that spanned
decades, teams, and scandals, as Lou helped Alex through his most
tumultuous episodes.Whether facing the difficulties of managing his
home team in Tampa Bay or helping the Cubs win back-to-back
division championships, Lou brings an unforgettable and feisty
voice to his rollercoaster ride of a career, going inside the
fights, pranks, and seemingly impossible comebacks that defined
every Lou Piniella team. Featuring a huge cast of Hall of Fame
characters and uproarious stories from three generations of
baseball, Lou offers a bridge to a rapidly disappearing era, a time
when baseball was a bit more fun, when passion was a virtue, and
when kicking a bit of dirt on an umpire was good for everyone.
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