Ebook {Epub PDF} Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis

This brief book, basically written to do two major things: honor a legendary prep school baseball coach and remind today's parents the easy way does not prepare your kids for life's tough lessons. Michael Lewis willing admits he was basically a spoiled brat when he was younger, roughly around years old, until he met Coach Fitzgerald his freshman year in high school/5.  · Lewis (Liar's Poker; Moneyball) remembers his high school baseball coach, Coach Fitz, a man so intense a room felt "more pressurized simply because he was in it." At the New Orleans private school Lewis attended in the late s, Coach Fitz taught kids to fight "the natural instinct to run away from adversity" and to battle their way through all the easy excuses life offers for giving up.5/5(76). Michael Lewis writes a succinct story of how a coach whom he feared at times molded him into a man who could accomplish things with his life. The message is clear, unless you are willing to sacrifice for the good of all you will never sacrifice for yourself, and sacrifice leads to /5().

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life. Michael Lewis. W. W. Norton Company, - Sports Recreation - 96 pages. 6 Reviews. A story with a big heart about a boy, a coach, the game of baseball, and the game of life. "There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them. Best selling author (Moneyball, Liar's Poker, and the New New Thing), Michael Lewis has written a little (90 pages) jewel with "Coach." Lewis reflects on his life at Isidore Newman School and the impact that his baseball coach and teacher, Billy "Fitz" Fitzgerald, had in shaping his life. COACH: Lessons on the Game of Life Michael Lewis, Author. Norton $ (96p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Michael Lewis: Seeking the Soul of Silicon Valley.

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life. Coach.: Michael M. Lewis. W. W. Norton Company, - Biography Autobiography - 93 pages. 6 Reviews. "There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in. Michael Lewis writes a succinct story of how a coach whom he feared at times molded him into a man who could accomplish things with his life. The message is clear, unless you are willing to sacrifice for the good of all you will never sacrifice for yourself, and sacrifice leads to accomplishment which leads to self esteem. Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis. Summary. This book is about Michael Lewis high school baseball coach Billy Fitzgerald. Lewis can still recall the feelings his coach helped instill in him – the idea that he is about to show world and himself what he can do. Key Takeaways.