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One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One
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One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season Paperback - 2013

by Tony La Russa

La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards--who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns--chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history. He reveals with fascinating behind-the-scenes details how, under his expert management, the St. Louis Cardinals emerged victorious in the 2011 World Series.


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In this New York Times best-selling comeback story, legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa reveals the thrilling behind-the-scenes details of how he led the St. Louis Cardinals to the 2011 World Series victory, despite countless injuries, mishaps, and roadblocks along the way.

Tony La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards--who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns--chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history, revealing with fascinating behind-the-scenes details how, under his expert management, the St. Louis Cardinals emerged victorious in the 2011 World Series despite countless injuries, mishaps, and roadblocks along the way. Talking candidly about the remarkable season--and his All-Star players like Albert Pujols and David Freese--the recently retired La Russa celebrates his fifty years in baseball, his team's amazing recovery from 10 1/2 games back, and one final, unforgettable championship in a book that no true baseball fan will want to miss.

From the rear cover

After thirty-three seasons managing in Major League Baseball, Tony La Russa thought he had seen it all--until the 2011 Cardinals. Down ten and a half games with little more than a month to play, the Cardinals had long been ruled out as serious postseason contenders. Yet in the face of those steep odds, this team mounted one of the most dramatic and impressive comebacks in baseball history, making the playoffs on the night of the final game of the season and going on to win the World Series despite being down to their last strike--twice.

Now La Russa gives the inside story behind this astonishing comeback and his extraordinary career. One Last Strike is a passionate, insightful look at our national pastime that takes you behind the scenes of the comeback no one thought possible and inside the mind of one of the game's greatest managers.

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  • Title One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season
  • Author Tony La Russa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, U.S.A.
  • Date 2013-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780062207548 / 0062207547
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.39 x 1.05 in (20.32 x 13.69 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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