Overwhelm the Tigers
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Book Introduction
Lee Beom-ho, the first 'MZ' manager born in the 1980s in the history of Korean professional baseball,
Become the captain of the Tigers in the midst of stormy waves and lead the team to its first championship in seven years.
The full story of the KIA Tigers' 2024 season, as seen through in-depth interviews with Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho.
In the 2024 Korea Professional Baseball (KBO) season, surprisingly, there was a team that started spring training without a manager.
Which team was forced to embark on winter training, the starting point of preparation for the year's farming season, without a manager? It was the KIA Tigers, a prestigious team with the most Korean Series wins (11).
The shocking news that shocked everyone came as a negative development, but the club dealt with it cleanly and quickly found a new captain.
While many baseball figures were mentioned in Hamapyeong, KIA's final choice was Lee Beom-ho.
After retiring from active duty at the end of the 2019 season, he received leadership training from the SoftBank Hawks in Japan and the Philadelphia Phillies in the United States, before returning to KIA to serve as a scout, second-team general manager, and first-team batting coach.
As he had been building his career as a leader and receiving good reviews, there was a vague image that he would become a manager someday, but no one expected that he would suddenly take the reins in such a chaotic and unfavorable atmosphere.
This marked the birth of the first manager born in the 1980s in the history of Korean professional baseball. The emergence of a so-called "MZ" manager in the KBO League marked a turning point for a new era.
Having become the head of the most popular team, the KIA Tigers, at the young age of 42, he will be the youngest manager among the 10 teams for the 2024 season and will face fierce competition from his senior baseball players.
Although he is in his early 40s, which may be considered young for a manager, the KIA team highly valued his leadership and philosophy more than anyone else.
Having worked with him as a player for about 10 years and as a coach for nearly 5 years, I knew very well that he was a prepared leader.
Some media and fans expressed the opinion that it may have been a somewhat risky and risky choice for a team that had written the most significant history in Korean professional baseball to suddenly appoint a rookie manager in the midst of a crisis.
But baseball player Lee Beom-ho didn't think that way.
Although he may be a beginner as a manager, he does not see himself as a beginner as a KIA man or a Tigers man.
Also, even though he was a rookie manager as people said, he was not afraid to accept the team's choice because he thought that the KIA Tigers players who were fighting as a team with him were not rookies.
Now, with these players, my confidence, excitement, and positive mindset that I can do something were much greater.
In the end, both the KIA Tigers' decision to appoint Lee Beom-ho as manager and Lee Beom-ho's decision to accept the team's choice were correct.
It bore fruit in the form of winning the pennant race for the first time in seven years and advancing to the Korean Series.
It was an amazing story written in the first season of a rookie manager in his first year of debut.
This book vividly depicts the behind-the-scenes moments of that story.
The story unfolds through the eyes and expressions of coach Lee Beom-ho, but what it deals with is the valuable victories and painful defeats that the KIA Tigers players gained through blood, sweat, and tears on the field.
Or perhaps it is a tribute to those moments that were moving in themselves, moments that cannot be simply defined by results like win or loss.
The gratitude the manager has for his players as a leader of the team and the gratitude he has for his fans as a manager representing the team are evident throughout the book.
I believe that such feelings are something that can be easily empathized with even if you are not a KIA Tigers fan, a baseball fan, or a sports fan.
In the end, baseball is also a story about people's lives.
You can hear laughter, bitterness, and sometimes even crying.
Those who fight together towards a single goal, you could call them a family or a squad.
Of course, it would be great if we could become a squad inside the stadium and a family outside the stadium.
"Overwhelm Tigers" is a book that contains such a story.
It's clearly a baseball book, but it's also a book that talks about more than just baseball.
Become the captain of the Tigers in the midst of stormy waves and lead the team to its first championship in seven years.
The full story of the KIA Tigers' 2024 season, as seen through in-depth interviews with Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho.
In the 2024 Korea Professional Baseball (KBO) season, surprisingly, there was a team that started spring training without a manager.
Which team was forced to embark on winter training, the starting point of preparation for the year's farming season, without a manager? It was the KIA Tigers, a prestigious team with the most Korean Series wins (11).
The shocking news that shocked everyone came as a negative development, but the club dealt with it cleanly and quickly found a new captain.
While many baseball figures were mentioned in Hamapyeong, KIA's final choice was Lee Beom-ho.
After retiring from active duty at the end of the 2019 season, he received leadership training from the SoftBank Hawks in Japan and the Philadelphia Phillies in the United States, before returning to KIA to serve as a scout, second-team general manager, and first-team batting coach.
As he had been building his career as a leader and receiving good reviews, there was a vague image that he would become a manager someday, but no one expected that he would suddenly take the reins in such a chaotic and unfavorable atmosphere.
This marked the birth of the first manager born in the 1980s in the history of Korean professional baseball. The emergence of a so-called "MZ" manager in the KBO League marked a turning point for a new era.
Having become the head of the most popular team, the KIA Tigers, at the young age of 42, he will be the youngest manager among the 10 teams for the 2024 season and will face fierce competition from his senior baseball players.
Although he is in his early 40s, which may be considered young for a manager, the KIA team highly valued his leadership and philosophy more than anyone else.
Having worked with him as a player for about 10 years and as a coach for nearly 5 years, I knew very well that he was a prepared leader.
Some media and fans expressed the opinion that it may have been a somewhat risky and risky choice for a team that had written the most significant history in Korean professional baseball to suddenly appoint a rookie manager in the midst of a crisis.
But baseball player Lee Beom-ho didn't think that way.
Although he may be a beginner as a manager, he does not see himself as a beginner as a KIA man or a Tigers man.
Also, even though he was a rookie manager as people said, he was not afraid to accept the team's choice because he thought that the KIA Tigers players who were fighting as a team with him were not rookies.
Now, with these players, my confidence, excitement, and positive mindset that I can do something were much greater.
In the end, both the KIA Tigers' decision to appoint Lee Beom-ho as manager and Lee Beom-ho's decision to accept the team's choice were correct.
It bore fruit in the form of winning the pennant race for the first time in seven years and advancing to the Korean Series.
It was an amazing story written in the first season of a rookie manager in his first year of debut.
This book vividly depicts the behind-the-scenes moments of that story.
The story unfolds through the eyes and expressions of coach Lee Beom-ho, but what it deals with is the valuable victories and painful defeats that the KIA Tigers players gained through blood, sweat, and tears on the field.
Or perhaps it is a tribute to those moments that were moving in themselves, moments that cannot be simply defined by results like win or loss.
The gratitude the manager has for his players as a leader of the team and the gratitude he has for his fans as a manager representing the team are evident throughout the book.
I believe that such feelings are something that can be easily empathized with even if you are not a KIA Tigers fan, a baseball fan, or a sports fan.
In the end, baseball is also a story about people's lives.
You can hear laughter, bitterness, and sometimes even crying.
Those who fight together towards a single goal, you could call them a family or a squad.
Of course, it would be great if we could become a squad inside the stadium and a family outside the stadium.
"Overwhelm Tigers" is a book that contains such a story.
It's clearly a baseball book, but it's also a book that talks about more than just baseball.
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Preview
index
prolog
1.
High expectations, but no director.
2.
Just 1 More!
3.
The most powerful 'colorless'
4.
Clutch heater
5.
Something different from director MZ
6.
Is a demonstration match just a demonstration match?
7.
Looks like a beginner, but not a beginner
8. NO.25
9.
Injury
10.
Running for first place
11.
The Young King
12.
Conditions for a strong team
13.
great pitcher
14.
veteran
15.
Problem solver
16.
error
17.
Waiting and believing
18.
It was a month of endurance
19.
Thank you kids
20.
Voice Hero
21. ALL STAR
22. CAPTAIN
23.
Consolidate the lead
24.
gwangju
25.
Winner
Epilogue
1.
High expectations, but no director.
2.
Just 1 More!
3.
The most powerful 'colorless'
4.
Clutch heater
5.
Something different from director MZ
6.
Is a demonstration match just a demonstration match?
7.
Looks like a beginner, but not a beginner
8. NO.25
9.
Injury
10.
Running for first place
11.
The Young King
12.
Conditions for a strong team
13.
great pitcher
14.
veteran
15.
Problem solver
16.
error
17.
Waiting and believing
18.
It was a month of endurance
19.
Thank you kids
20.
Voice Hero
21. ALL STAR
22. CAPTAIN
23.
Consolidate the lead
24.
gwangju
25.
Winner
Epilogue
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Publisher's Review
Lee Beom-ho, a rookie manager, takes charge of the Tigers, the strongest team in Korean professional baseball history.
We meet sports storyteller and announcer Oh Hyo-joo to look back on KIA's 2024.
As a documentary and an essay, this is a special piece of content that will remain in Korean sports publishing for a long time.
Oh Hyo-joo, a storyteller considered one of the best interviewers in Korean sports broadcasting, has once again taken up the pen instead of the microphone.
Announcer Oh Hyo-joo, who has been covering sports scenes and studios for over 10 years, believes that the one-year story of the 2024 season, written by manager Lee Beom-ho and the KIA Tigers, will remain as a significant piece of Korean professional baseball history.
Some people were concerned that the project had too many variables to pursue as published content, but he pushed ahead with determination and steadfastness.
When a situation arises, rather than worrying about the future and hesitating, the two authors, interviewer Oh Hyo-joo and interviewee Lee Beom-ho, have something in common, like the lyrics of the song "Jilpungga-do": they take courage and start moving forward, directly confronting and resolving the issue.
A book that looks back on the KIA Tigers, the strongest team in Korean professional baseball in the 2024 season, through the thoughts, conversations, and sentences of two people, will be a new attempt that is both entertaining and meaningful.
Needless to say, the KIA Tigers are a popular team representing Korean professional baseball and a top prestigious team.
If we consider the number of pennant race wins or Korean Series appearances as criteria, teams like the Samsung Lions and Doosan Bears might be considered competitors, but if we only consider the number of Korean Series wins that have lifted the trophy, the Tigers are several steps ahead of those two teams.
It's not just about winning more times.
The fact that they advanced to the highest stage, the Korean Series, 11 times and won 11 times with a 100% probability without even finishing as runner-up once can be said to have instilled the image of 'invincible' and 'strongest'.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the KIA Tigers team's genes are always yearning for a championship and a desire to win.
For that reason, it was a great irony and a risk-taking that the KIA Tigers entrusted the important task of overcoming the adversity that had befallen them ahead of the 2024 season, normalizing the team, and turning it into a team that could once again aim for the championship to a new manager, Lee Beom-ho, who had no previous managerial experience.
In some ways, some have argued that the 2024 season is not about winning or achieving results right away, but rather about creating a new team and solidifying the organization.
However, baseball player Lee Beom-ho thought that although he may be a rookie as a manager, he was by no means a rookie as a member of the KIA Tigers.
Because I had such a strong mind, I was able to ignore the looks from outsiders like, "How much can a rookie director do?" and think that it was perfectly understandable.
As a prepared leader, he established firm beliefs and standards early on and was not swayed by superficial advice bordering on stereotypes such as, "This is what a manager should be like," "What a manager should have," and "What a manager should not do."
I always kept my ears open to hear various opinions, but the target audience was none other than my teammates and players.
He thought that if a relationship is formed in which the players find it difficult to approach the manager, the tension and pressure will make the players stiff and it will not be good for them to go out on the field and play.
I wanted to help the players find the root of the problem and solve it on their own, with a positive mindset that even if they make a mistake, they can make up for it next time.
That is manager Lee Beom-ho's baseball philosophy.
Playing with joy and fun, without worrying about what others think, at least on the field, is the mindset that has laid the foundation for the KIA Tigers' excellent chemistry as a team this season.
The good atmosphere also led to good results.
The Tigers' 2024 pennant race was anything but smooth sailing.
No, rather, it would be more accurate to say that it was far from ‘smooth’.
Looking back, those were not smooth or easy days at all.
It was a season with so many twists and turns that it was hard to believe it was a championship season, and there were so many players who dropped out of the lineup that it was hard to believe it was a championship team.
There was a constant stream of variables that could neither be controlled nor predicted.
But coach Lee Beom-ho and the players were not shaken.
That was the most important thing.
If the manager doesn't collapse, the players won't collapse either.
If the players don't give up, the fans won't give up either.
In 2024, KIA was the team that showed just that kind of baseball.
It was a team that spoke to us about many things in our lives through baseball.
The 2024 season of the KIA Tigers, as seen by authors Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho, comes to life in a single book, "Overwhelm the Tigers."
Throughout the book, there are passages that provide enlightenment through joy.
It is interesting, moving, and even beneficial.
Let's turn the calendar and clock back to January and replay it one by one.
Just looking back at the difficulties that coach Lee Beom-ho and the Tigers overcame to reach the top will be quite moving.
An in-depth interview between Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho
For over a decade, Oh Hyo-joo has served as KBS N Sports' flagship announcer, covering a variety of sports, including baseball and volleyball, from stadiums and studios. A versatile MC, caster, reporter, and interviewer, Oh Hyo-joo met with Lee Beom-ho, the first manager born in the 1980s in Korean professional baseball history, for a deep conversation about the KIA Tigers, the team he joined in his first season as manager, and the players.
Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho created a book together called "Overwhelm the Tigers" after having in-depth interviews in various spaces and times, as well as conversations between interviewer and interviewee both on and off the field.
This can be defined as a sports documentary book that goes beyond an essay that delves into the first year of the baseball managerial debut of Lee Beom-ho and covers it in detail, and also tells the behind-the-scenes story of the KIA Tigers team that shed blood, sweat, and tears with him as they rose to the top again.
The story of Manager Lee Beom-ho and the Tigers players, brought to life in a book by Oh Hyo-joo, Korea's top sports interviewer and storyteller, will deeply move not only KIA fans but all baseball and sports fans, as well as many others who live each day dreaming of a better tomorrow.
You'll get a firsthand experience of what makes the mindset and mentality of Korea's top baseball players so special, and how a flexible leader can inspire the motivation and chemistry within his teammates.
We meet sports storyteller and announcer Oh Hyo-joo to look back on KIA's 2024.
As a documentary and an essay, this is a special piece of content that will remain in Korean sports publishing for a long time.
Oh Hyo-joo, a storyteller considered one of the best interviewers in Korean sports broadcasting, has once again taken up the pen instead of the microphone.
Announcer Oh Hyo-joo, who has been covering sports scenes and studios for over 10 years, believes that the one-year story of the 2024 season, written by manager Lee Beom-ho and the KIA Tigers, will remain as a significant piece of Korean professional baseball history.
Some people were concerned that the project had too many variables to pursue as published content, but he pushed ahead with determination and steadfastness.
When a situation arises, rather than worrying about the future and hesitating, the two authors, interviewer Oh Hyo-joo and interviewee Lee Beom-ho, have something in common, like the lyrics of the song "Jilpungga-do": they take courage and start moving forward, directly confronting and resolving the issue.
A book that looks back on the KIA Tigers, the strongest team in Korean professional baseball in the 2024 season, through the thoughts, conversations, and sentences of two people, will be a new attempt that is both entertaining and meaningful.
Needless to say, the KIA Tigers are a popular team representing Korean professional baseball and a top prestigious team.
If we consider the number of pennant race wins or Korean Series appearances as criteria, teams like the Samsung Lions and Doosan Bears might be considered competitors, but if we only consider the number of Korean Series wins that have lifted the trophy, the Tigers are several steps ahead of those two teams.
It's not just about winning more times.
The fact that they advanced to the highest stage, the Korean Series, 11 times and won 11 times with a 100% probability without even finishing as runner-up once can be said to have instilled the image of 'invincible' and 'strongest'.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the KIA Tigers team's genes are always yearning for a championship and a desire to win.
For that reason, it was a great irony and a risk-taking that the KIA Tigers entrusted the important task of overcoming the adversity that had befallen them ahead of the 2024 season, normalizing the team, and turning it into a team that could once again aim for the championship to a new manager, Lee Beom-ho, who had no previous managerial experience.
In some ways, some have argued that the 2024 season is not about winning or achieving results right away, but rather about creating a new team and solidifying the organization.
However, baseball player Lee Beom-ho thought that although he may be a rookie as a manager, he was by no means a rookie as a member of the KIA Tigers.
Because I had such a strong mind, I was able to ignore the looks from outsiders like, "How much can a rookie director do?" and think that it was perfectly understandable.
As a prepared leader, he established firm beliefs and standards early on and was not swayed by superficial advice bordering on stereotypes such as, "This is what a manager should be like," "What a manager should have," and "What a manager should not do."
I always kept my ears open to hear various opinions, but the target audience was none other than my teammates and players.
He thought that if a relationship is formed in which the players find it difficult to approach the manager, the tension and pressure will make the players stiff and it will not be good for them to go out on the field and play.
I wanted to help the players find the root of the problem and solve it on their own, with a positive mindset that even if they make a mistake, they can make up for it next time.
That is manager Lee Beom-ho's baseball philosophy.
Playing with joy and fun, without worrying about what others think, at least on the field, is the mindset that has laid the foundation for the KIA Tigers' excellent chemistry as a team this season.
The good atmosphere also led to good results.
The Tigers' 2024 pennant race was anything but smooth sailing.
No, rather, it would be more accurate to say that it was far from ‘smooth’.
Looking back, those were not smooth or easy days at all.
It was a season with so many twists and turns that it was hard to believe it was a championship season, and there were so many players who dropped out of the lineup that it was hard to believe it was a championship team.
There was a constant stream of variables that could neither be controlled nor predicted.
But coach Lee Beom-ho and the players were not shaken.
That was the most important thing.
If the manager doesn't collapse, the players won't collapse either.
If the players don't give up, the fans won't give up either.
In 2024, KIA was the team that showed just that kind of baseball.
It was a team that spoke to us about many things in our lives through baseball.
The 2024 season of the KIA Tigers, as seen by authors Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho, comes to life in a single book, "Overwhelm the Tigers."
Throughout the book, there are passages that provide enlightenment through joy.
It is interesting, moving, and even beneficial.
Let's turn the calendar and clock back to January and replay it one by one.
Just looking back at the difficulties that coach Lee Beom-ho and the Tigers overcame to reach the top will be quite moving.
An in-depth interview between Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho
For over a decade, Oh Hyo-joo has served as KBS N Sports' flagship announcer, covering a variety of sports, including baseball and volleyball, from stadiums and studios. A versatile MC, caster, reporter, and interviewer, Oh Hyo-joo met with Lee Beom-ho, the first manager born in the 1980s in Korean professional baseball history, for a deep conversation about the KIA Tigers, the team he joined in his first season as manager, and the players.
Oh Hyo-joo and Lee Beom-ho created a book together called "Overwhelm the Tigers" after having in-depth interviews in various spaces and times, as well as conversations between interviewer and interviewee both on and off the field.
This can be defined as a sports documentary book that goes beyond an essay that delves into the first year of the baseball managerial debut of Lee Beom-ho and covers it in detail, and also tells the behind-the-scenes story of the KIA Tigers team that shed blood, sweat, and tears with him as they rose to the top again.
The story of Manager Lee Beom-ho and the Tigers players, brought to life in a book by Oh Hyo-joo, Korea's top sports interviewer and storyteller, will deeply move not only KIA fans but all baseball and sports fans, as well as many others who live each day dreaming of a better tomorrow.
You'll get a firsthand experience of what makes the mindset and mentality of Korea's top baseball players so special, and how a flexible leader can inspire the motivation and chemistry within his teammates.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: November 1, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 264 pages | 498g | 148*220*16mm
- ISBN13: 9791169780407
- ISBN10: 1169780407
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