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    Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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    Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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    Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

    Written by Michael Lewis

    Narrated by Michael Lewis

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    About this audiobook

    “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’ 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 even now, thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 10, 2005
    ISBN9780739320426
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    Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
    Author

    Michael Lewis

    Michael Lewis is the host of the podcast Against the Rules. He has published many New York Times bestselling books, including Liar's Poker, The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, and The Big Short. Movie versions of The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Blind Side were all nominated for Academy Awards. He grew up in New Orleans and remains deeply interested and involved in the city but now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their children.

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    • 3/5
      Super quick interesting read by Lewis. Lewis is a terrific journalist. This is basically just a personal story of his High School baseball coach. Its half a nostalgic trip of the writer about his coach, who changed his life, and half an indictment about the current 'crop' of parents of players. (Not just at that school, but in general). Its an quick and easy enough to read to be entertaining, so its briefness is a good thing, anything longer would be too much. It's definitely passable and unremarkable (unless you're Michael Lewis, or Fitz, or went to the school). The pictures (nearly every other page) are pretty much pointless and don't even correlate with the book all that much (except for the last photo which is the author pitching).
    • 3/5
      This slim tome called to me from the shelves, which is unusual, since I'm not a fan of sports at all. But Lewis' book is less about sports and more about the art of inspiring teenagers to strive for excellence. "Coach" is an homage to Lewis' greatest mentor, Coach Fitz, whose unorthodox methods inspired generations of basketball and baseball players. At least, Coach Fitz was able to inspire the teens under his tuteledge until recently. Lewis spends the greater part of the book bemoaning the fact that Coach Fitz's approach has been considerably softened by parents who regularly call to complain that their child hasn't been playing, that Coach Fitz is to hard on them and that Coach Fitz is just plain unfair. That Coach Fitz works at an exclusive private school funded by these complaining parents puts him at a distinct disadvantage. Unfortunately, there is no inspirational ending, just a sad commentary on parents who wish to shield their children from the slightest difficulties or inconveniences.
    • 4/5
      very short. but typically well done. lewis is good
    • 4/5
      Very un-politically correct profile of a tough coach who taught Lewis more than he realized at the time. Note that this is a very slim book indeed -- hardly more than a long essay.