Joe Maddon, World Series winning baseball manager

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Major League Baseball is in its Postseason. This week we're joined by a great – former Cubs, Rays and Angels manager Joe Maddon. The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life. was written by Maddon and Tom VerducciIt. The book is part memoir, part inspirational text, part practical guide on how to build better baseball teams.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumPun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:23.3	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:25.5	The playoffs just started in baseball.
0:28.6	As I'm recording this, eight teams are vying for the World Series title.
0:33.6	By the time you hear it, it'll probably be down to six or maybe even four.
0:39.6	And this year has been a weird season for Joe Madden.
0:46.3	Joe Madden has worked in baseball his entire life.
0:50.1	Just as a ball player, a pro, though not an especially good one.
0:55.1	And then starting in his early 20s, he worked in pretty much every other baseball job you
1:02.0	can have, starting with Junior Scout and ending with Major League Manager.
1:07.6	He has three manager of the year awards, two with the Tampa Bay race and one with the
1:12.8	Chicago Cubs.
1:14.2	He led the Cubs to their first World Series title in more than a hundred years.
1:19.9	He's a distinctive sort of manager, usually wears a pullover hoodie in the dugout.
1:25.1	And that in his thick, rimmed glasses and his low baseball cap make him look less like
1:32.0	a baseball manager and more like, I guess maybe a surf dad.
1:38.3	Madden was famous for being a very distinct hybrid of old school and forward thinking.
1:43.6	On the one hand, he is the absolute epitome of a baseball lifer.
1:48.3	On the other, his propensity for the unusual is legendary.
1:53.0	He introduced themed costume days to his team's schedules like multiple themed costume days.
2:01.3	And once when he was managing the Chicago Cubs, he set up a visit from some actual live
2:07.8	bear Cubs, like real Cubs to, I guess, inspire everyone.
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