A review by austiwesty
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger

3.0

It was really weird reading this after reading Moneyball and Big Data Baseball. I love the analytics and sabermetric approaches to baseball, so it was strange to read a book focused on the old-school techniques. La Russa openly trashes sabermetrics repeatedly, which seems pretty foolish 10+ years later. This was an interesting concept for a book, but it came across fairly boring. I did enjoy the different anecdotes and stories about the players, especially the section on Darryl Kile.