Connie Mack : The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
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| Title: | Connie Mack : The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 |
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| Description: | The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht's biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and, in an unprecedented reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's rebuilding efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule. At the age of fifty-nine and in the face of widespread skepticism and seemingly insurmountable odds, Connie Mack reasserted his genius, remade the A's, and rose again to the top, even surpassing his earlier success. Baseball biographer and historian Macht recreates what may be the most remarkable chapter in this larger-than-life story. He shows us the man and his time and the game of baseball in all its nitty-gritty glory of the 1920s, and how Connie Mack built the 1929–1931 champions of Foxx, Simmons, Cochrane, Grove, Earnshaw, Miller, Haas, Bishop, Dykes—a team many consider baseball's greatest ever. |
| Authors: | Norman L. Macht |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Baseball managers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography, Baseball team owners--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography |
| Categories: | SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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