Buster Olney

Autore di The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness

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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (2004) 238 copie

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer (2010) 46 copie

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Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Collaboratore — 337 copie

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Nome canonico: Olney, Buster
Nome legale: Olney, Robert Stanbury, III
Data di nascita: 1964-02-17
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Washington, D.C., USA
Luogo di residenza: Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
Randolph Center, Vermont, USA
Istruzione: Vanderbilt University
Attività lavorative: sports columnist
television personality
reporter

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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the… di Buster Olney

The Game 7 loss to Arizona in the World Series. A bit too much rides on the supposed end of the Yankee dynasty--they would, after all continue to contend and would reach and win more World Series, but this game did mark a change, one that's probably made a lot clearer in the paperback's epilogue (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=2051491) which takes the story (quickly) up to 2004. The change was between the largely home-grown 1990s Yankees and the largely free-agent-based team of the 2000s. The 2000s team still had some success, but wasn't nearly as fun for anyone. Olney does a very good job telling the story of that 1990s team and what made it special.… (altro)

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ehines | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 22, 2014 |

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer di Buster Olney

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I don't follow team sports. Prior to reading HOW LUCKY YOU CAN BE I had never heard of Coach Don Meyer. Well, now I am the lucky one: I awarded it through LT's Early Reviewers, and really enjoyed this engaging, inspirational biography.

The side stories weren't distracting to me -- they simply made me want to keep reading to find out what happened. While author Buster Olney clearly admires Meyer, he didn't seem blinded by adulation and presented Olney as someone with strengths and weaknesses, like all of us.

This book is an inspirational account of strength in the face of adversity; of life priorities, and of transformation. It is well worth re-reading.… (altro)

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MtnSk8tr | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 29, 2011 |

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer di Buster Olney

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The story was inspiring, however, I did not like the writing style of the author. There were to many side stories, that I felt distracted from the real nature of the book. Many of these side stories were not in chronological order of the events happening in the life of Don Meyer. It seemed as the story jumped around and that lead to a lot of confusion on my part.

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bgherman | 9 altre recensioni | Dec 4, 2010 |

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer di Buster Olney

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The story about Coach Don Meyer, who coaches the Northern State Wolves in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Who was involved in an auto accident that changes his life and those around him. While this is a Basketball story there is much more to it than coaching basketball, it is about never giving up and the bonds that a coach forms with his players, the community and his family.

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