Aces - Urban, Mychael
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An inside look at three of baseballs best pitchers through the course of the 2004 season The Oakland As-the subject of last years bestselling Moneyball by Michael Lewis-are home to three of baseballs top pitchers. Written by a veteran Bay Area sportswriter with the complete cooperation of all three pitchers, Aces explores the art of pitching by taking readers inside the pitchersvery different minds during critical games and revealing what really goes on i the dugout, at the clubhouse, and off the field. Mychael Urban (Livermore, CA) is a national writer for MLB.com, the official Web site of…mehr

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An inside look at three of baseballs best pitchers through the course of the 2004 season The Oakland As-the subject of last years bestselling Moneyball by Michael Lewis-are home to three of baseballs top pitchers. Written by a veteran Bay Area sportswriter with the complete cooperation of all three pitchers, Aces explores the art of pitching by taking readers inside the pitchersvery different minds during critical games and revealing what really goes on i the dugout, at the clubhouse, and off the field. Mychael Urban (Livermore, CA) is a national writer for MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, and has covered the As since 2001. He talks about baseball regularly on FOXSports TV, ESPN Radio, and MLB.com Radio.
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Autorenporträt
MYCHAEL URBAN is a national writer for MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, and has covered the A's since 2001. He talks about baseball regularly as a fill-in host on KNBR-680 (AM) in San Francisco and as a guest on FOX Sports Northwest TV, ESPN radio, and MLB radio.
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_ "An excellent book that's well-written...and a fitting tribute to what will someday likely be considered a renaissance age of Oakland A's baseball." -Athletics Nation
"Written with great color, style, humor, and grace, Aces takes readers on a captivating ride." - Mike Silver, Sports Illustrated

"Mychael Urban's book is a fabulous read... This is hardly just a baseball book. It's about life, and he tremendous burden each pitcher carried while trying to lead the Oakland A's to the playoffs. I absolutely loved it." - Bob Nightengale, Senor Writer/Columnist, USA Today Sports Weekly

"From the southern fried heat of Tim Hudson to Mark Mulder's cool aloofness to Barry Zito's cerebral wanderings, Urban captures the engine of Oakland's Little Engine That Could of a team with grace and aplomb"" - Scott Miller, National Baseball Columnist, CBS.SportsLine.com