Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM

Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM

Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM

Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM

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Overview

Lost two Cy Young winners in two years, signed a forty-seven-year-old to be his starting first baseman, played seventeen rookies in 2005, and still took his team to the playoffs: baseball is John Schuerholz's world, and everyone else is just playing in it.

In Built to Win, the legendary general manager takes you behind the scenes of the Braves' front office—the most successful in baseball since 1990—and shows how his unique philosophies and leadership techniques have helped Atlanta achieve something no team in sports has ever come close to accomplishing. He candidly peels back the curtain, taking you to his first World Series with the Kansas City Royals and the other moments that defined his career, including his eventual departure to the league doormat Atlanta Braves. No sooner did Schuerholz arrive than they won their first title in 1991—and the rest is history.

You'll be there on the incredible night in 1992 when Schuerholz improbably traded for Barry Bonds-only to have the deal nixed at the eleventh hour. You'll see how through shrewd negotiation he swooped in to sign reigning Cy Young-winner Greg Maddux out from under the free-spending Yankees. You'll hear how he dealt with the horrific comments made by John Rocker, helping the Braves overcome the biggest PR nightmare in team history to win yet another division crown.

Through the eyes of one of the game's sharpest executives, you'll see why Moneyball only scrapes the tip of Schuerholz's time-tested theories, as well as how he developed the premier scouting system in the majors and a free agent strategy that led the Braves to the top of the heap-fourteen years running. And in the end, you'll see what the rest of the baseball world has known for the better part of two decades: that through the brilliance of John Schuerholz, the Braves have lived with one motto, and one motto alone: "All We Do Is Win."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780446696531
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 04/03/2007
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 617,996
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Schuerholz lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents


Foreword   Bob Costas     xi
Barry Bonds a Brave-Briefly     1
Gentlemen, Start Your Moneyball Arguments     25
A Rotation for the Ages     48
The Diary of a Major League Deal     78
Dog Bites Man! Teacher Quits for Less Money!     106
Building a Winning Organization     121
Leadership: Good People, Good Listening, Enthusiasm     150
Coping with Baseball Economics and Agents     181
Crisis Management: Rocker, Furcal, et al.     211
Giving Back     243
Afterword     251
The Unprecedented Streak     259
Index     268
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