Pouring Six Beers at a Time: And Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball

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Overview

Bill Giles is a baseball lifer who grew up in ballparks while his father oversaw the Cincinnati Reds and later the entire National League. Young Giles learned that the game was meant to be fun, and he's done more to make it that way over the past five decades than just about anyone else. From the forgotten minor league towns to the big-league clubs in Houston and Philadelphia, Bill Giles spent all of his waking hours dreaming up ways to make the game more enjoyable. Pouring Six Beers at a Time is his humorous and poignant recollection of how he did just that.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781600782565
  • Publisher: Triumph Books
  • Publication date: 3/1/2009
  • Pages: 386
  • Sales rank: 827,530
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Bill Giles is the former business manager of the Nashville Vols minor League baseball team before moving on to be publicist and marketing director of the Houston Colt .45s and the Astrodome for ten years. In late 1969 he joined the Philadelphia Phillies becoming director of Business operations. In 1981 he put a group together to purchase the Phillies and became CEO until late 1997 when he semi-retired and became chairman of the Phillies. He is still a part owner of the Phillies and Chairman. Giles is the son of former National League president Warren Giles. Doug Myers is the author of several baseball books, including Essential Cubs and Louisville Slugger Complete Book of Pitching.

Table of Contents


Foreword   Jayson Stark     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     xiii
Raised in a Ballpark     1
My Dream to Run a Baseball Team     25
Moving on to Texas     37
The Astrodome     59
A Secret Mission     79
A Philadelphia Story     85
Putting the Pieces Together     121
The Team That Wouldn't Die     139
A Valley between the Peaks     181
Last to First     181
Field of Dreams     203
The Economic Evolution of Major League Baseball     219
Special Players     247
Memorable Owners     265
The Commissioners     277
Richie Ashburn: A Philadelphia Icon     305
Family Comes First     313
Sources     323
Index     325

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