"He wasn't trying to overmanage or try to be too smart.

Just as many of his characters are control freaks, so Mr. Chabon, as a writer, tends to overmanage their fates.

There are those like Tony La Russa who may overmanage, but those managers usually succeed better than a Baker, who undermanages.

At the very least, the Yankees seemed to overmanage the process by experimenting with three distinct proposals since July that tinkered too aggressively or too cutely with MSG's matching rights.

If the government chooses to overmanage the wages of war in Iraq, there is a real danger that this new generation of veterans, whose ranks grow every day, could come home to a place where their fellow Americans have little idea what they have gone through.