5/26/2023 0 Comments Michael lewis moneyball author![]() The current headmaster's name was Scott McLeod, and, he said, the school he'd taken charge of in 1993 was different from the school I'd graduated from in 1978. So Lewis went back to New Orleans to investigate. Lewis learned that some parents were trying to have Coach Fitz fired because they thought he was too tough on their kids. Coach Fitz was intense, and was prone to giving sermons, breaking things if he was upset, and adding extra practices if he didn't think the kids were working hard enough.īut that was more than 30 years ago. Michael Lewis attended a wealthy private school in New Orleans, and Billy Fitzgerald was his baseball coach. ![]() The book has a lot of meaning, despite being only 90 pages long. It is also a story of a generational divide, and how modern parents are accused of "helicoptering" and sheltering their kids too much, which makes it more difficult for the coach to do his job. This is a nice story about how a tough coach inspired some high school kids to do more with their lives, including the author. ![]()
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