Lou: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball

by Lou Pinellas; Bill Madden; Lou Piniellas [Contributor], Bill Madden, Lou Piniellas (Contributor)

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 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 unpire's face. Tracing his baseball life from its journeyman beginnings in the minors, he discusses how he came of age as a player durng 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 detais his close yet often contentious relationship 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 -- and that was only the colorful beginning of Lou's fiery career...

342 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Nancy Wesche · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can you not enjoy reading about Sweet Lou! Great to learn about what it was like to travel, move, work hard, grow with different management styles, teams, players all while being family focused. Great bio!