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Now in paperback and featuring a new foreword by the author St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's New York Times bestselling manifesto about what parents coaches and athletes get wrong about sports; what we can do better; and how sports can teach eight keys to success in sports and life.

Mike Matheny was just forty-one without professional managerial experience and looking for a next step after a successful career as a Major League catcher when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. While Matheny has enjoyed immediate success leading the Cards to the postseason four times in his first four yearsa Major League recordpeople have noticed something else about his life something not measured in day-to-day results. Instead its based on a frankly worded letter he wrote to the parents of a Little League team he coached a cry for change that became an Internet sensation and eventually a manifesto.

The tough-love philosophy Matheny expressed in the letter contained his throwback beliefs that authority should be respected?? discipline and hard work rewarded?? spiritual faith cultivated?? family made a priority?? and humility considered a v