Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life : Lewis, Michael by Michael Lewis


Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life : Lewis, Michael
Title : Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life : Lewis, Michael
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ISBN : 9780393060911
ISBN-10 : 978-0857091086
Language : English
Format Type : Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
Number of Pages : 96 pages
Publication : W. W. Norton & Company

A story with a big heart about a boy, a coach, the game of baseball, and the game of life. 'There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.' There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. 'I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do.' The coach's message was not simply about winning but about self respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. In some ways, and now thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him. 14 illustrations

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life : Lewis, Michael Reviews

  • Mr. B. Moyo

    Nice book. Was finished in about 10 minutes which to me translates as, it flows well. There is nothing 'new' in here and I think people than not will relate or recognise a Coach Fitz character in their lives whether they found it a positive, enabling experience or not is a different matter! Might have been good to get perspective from Lewis' peers on their life coach, otherwise it sounds like a homage to the man, which misses the point.

  • Doug robertshaw

    It touches on many of the same themes as Whiplash on an autobiographical look at the author's old coach. It's a great book to read to give you perspective as to why people are sometimes hard on the ones they mentor, coach and teach. Quick read and a must read.

  • Sea Wolf

    The book was as good as new

  • Bob

    A tremendous short story by a great author. A must read

  • Jonathan J T Reilly

    As described and delivered in a timely fashion.