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In Winning in Both Leagues J. Frank Cashen looks back over his twenty-five-year career in baseball. Best known as the general manager of the New York Mets during their remaking and rise to glory in the 1980s, Cashen fills the pages with lively stories from his baseball tenure during the last half of the twentieth century. His career included a stint with the Baltimore Orioles of the late sixties and early seventies, working with manager Earl Weaver and great teams, including such players as Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, and Brooks Robinson. Later, tapped by Mets owner Nelson Doubleday Jr. to bring the Mets to the pinnacle of Major League Baseball, Cashen, with the rise of superstars Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, led the Mets to the thrilling come-from-behind victory over the Boston Red Sox leading to the World Series championship in 1986.
Winning in Both Leagues also chronicles the drafting of Billy Beane, who would later be the focus of the New York Times best seller Moneyball. Cashen, who was a central figure in the fierce competition with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, excelled at building winning ball clubs and remains one of only three general managers ever to win a World Series in both leagues.
Contents
Foreword by Billy Beane
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Beating Boston
2. Call from the Boss
3. Baltimore Beginnings
4. Shocking Developments
5. Parting Gift
6. Four Straight
7. After the Sweep
8. Earl of Baltimore
9. Low Point to High Flyers
10. Negotiating Contracts
11. My First Passion
12. From Studs to Suds
13. Commish's Call
14. Baseball Trails
15. Casting My Fate
16. Changing the Mets' Image
17. Yellow Pad Parlance
18. Trade Secrets
19. Competing in the Apple
20. Building a Winner
21. Breaking .500
22. Dominating Season
23. Infamous Plane Trip
24. Series Showdown
25. Futures Trading
26. Broadcasting Brilliance
27. New Friends, New Places
28. Traveling Tales
29. Mets Changes
30. New Choices
31. Extra Innings
