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RICKEY BEING RICKEY: THOUGHTS ON HENDERSON AND BRANCH

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 
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"TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK NOT WHAT YOU'VE HEARD"

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 
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