Sam Walker

WSJ Sports Editor, Author of The Captain Class

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ABOUT THE CAPTAIN CLASS

Sam Walker The Captain ClassThe former global sports editor of The Wall Street Journal profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.

Fueled by a lifetime of sports spectating, twenty years of reporting, and a decade of painstaking research, The Captain Class tells the surprising story of what makes teams exceptional. Drawing on original interviews with athletes from two dozen countries, as well as general managers, coaches, executives, and others skilled at building teams, Walker identifies the seven core qualities of this Captain Class—from extreme doggedness and emotional control to a knack for nonverbal communication to aggression and the courage to stand apart.

 

ABOUT FANTASYLAND

The Fantasy Land by Sam WalkerEvery spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest, most obsessive, and most engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: Rotisserie baseball, a fantasy game where armchair fans match wits by building their own teams.

In 2004, Sam Walker, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars, a league reserved for the nation’s top experts.

The result is one of the most sheerly entertaining sports books in years and a matchless look into the heart and soul of our national pastime.

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“Well-researched, wildly entertaining, and thought-provoking.

In The Captain Class, Sam Walker presents compelling narratives about the secret ingredient to the greatest teams of all time – and quickly has the reader reexamining long-held beliefs about leadership and the glue that binds winning teams together.”

– THEO EPSTEIN

President of Baseball Operations, the Chicago Cubs

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