When I started working on my biography of Branch Rickey in the late 1990s, some people thought I was writing about Rickey Henderson, the all-time base stealing champion and one of the most effective leadoff hitters in baseball history. On the last Sunday of next month Read More
"TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK NOT WHAT YOU'VE HEARD"
June 10, 2009
Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon is a man of many adages and aphorisms. “Attitude is a decision” caught my eye last year, coined by the sport psychologist Ken Revizza who is a consultant for the Rays. My grad students in the Columbia sport management program really latched onto it. (And as someone who Read More