* Announcement: Another Yogi Berra book

From a press release from the publisher:

You Can Learn a Lot by Watching: What I’ve Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life
by Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan (John Wiley & Sons)

What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses “team player” as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching.

Long before Yogi Berra became world famous for his inimitable use of the English language, he was loved by millions of baseball fans as one of the greatest players in the history of the game and a fierce competitor who would do anything to help his team and his teammates win.

In You Can Observe a Lot by Watching [published in time for Father’s Day, and prior to the last Major League Baseball All-Star Game at the current Yankee Stadium on July 8, 2008] Yogi offers good-natured reminiscing with a serious purpose in mind: to deliver a thoughtful and instructive account of the single most important factor in creating a winning team in any sport, business, or other venture—teamwork.

Over his seventeen years as a major-league player, Yogi and his Yankee teammates won fourteen pennants and ten World Series. Sharing hundreds of telling stories from those golden years, Yogi demonstrates that the secret of the team’s fabulous success was not merely the stellar play of Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, and Yogi himself; it was the way they and everyone else on the roster worked together, on and off the field. DiMaggio gave a rookie named Berra a tip that changed his career. Mantle’s good humor kept the whole team loose when things were going badly. And, in 1960, Maris surprised everyone by bunting a runner in from third rather than swinging away for his 55th homer.

In this heartfelt tribute to qualities that often appear to be fading from professional sports, Yogi shows you how to be a better teammate and contribute all you can to your team’s quest for excellence. You’ll learn why even the greatest players have to put the team’s welfare before their own, protect their teammates, and take responsibility for their actions. You’ll discover the secret of being a good teammate to someone you don’t really like; the importance of controlling your emotions in every situation; and how even the least talented player can make outstanding contributions to the team.

Yogi Berra is one of baseball’s legends and ambassadors. His books include The New York Times bestseller When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!, Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons and The Yogi Book: “I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said!“. Dave Kaplan, a former Associated Press editor and reporter for the New York Daily News, is the director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center and the coauthor of several Yogi Berra books.