How to steal a pennant

Traditional baseball wisdom holds to playing "by the book": to be a winner, in all respects, don't buck tradition. Don't rock the boat. But Maury Wills, former star shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the man who broke a fifty-year record for stealing bases and went on to establish a career as a top sportscaster, sees it differently. For Maury, rules are made to be broken. More than a behind-the-scenes look at the strategies and politics of big-league ball, this is an intimate account of the human side of professional sports -- the elation of victory and the bitterness of defeat; the arguments, the camaraderie, and the wild practical jokes.