COACH: LESSONS ON THE GAME OF LIFE
by LEWIS, MICHAEL
List Price: HK$ 123.00
ˇ@ISBN
9780393060911
ˇ@Subject
BIOGRAPHY
ˇ@Publisher
W. W. NORTON US
ˇ@Publication
2005
ˇ@Edition
Hardcover
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
There was a turning point in Michael Lewisˇ¦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 Lewisˇ¦s ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. ˇ§I didnˇ¦t have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do.ˇ¨
The coachˇ¦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.
