Baseball It's Your Team Author:Nate Aaseng Similar to Aaseng's ``You Are the Manager'' books (Lerner), this one asks readers to choose their own ending from the point of view of the owner of a professional team. Aaseng sets up ten situations from baseball history (including teams, players and owners from 1961 through 1982); in each, readers are given the information about the... more » problem, such as whether or not the 1982 Yankees should sign Reggie Jackson. Aaseng gives the pros and cons, asks readers to decide which of three alternatives they choose and tells what really happened. The style is an easy-to-read ``sports-page prose.'' There are plenty of colorful sports idioms: ``axe the manager,'' ``fencebusters.''
Presents ten crucial situations major league baseball team owners have had to face, permitting the reader to make the decision from reading the facts, before stating what actually happened.« less