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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
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by Norman L. Macht and Connie Mack III
Sales Rank: 186112
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List Price: $39.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 742 pages
Published by: University of Nebraska Press September 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0803232632
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803232631
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 2.3 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
"As a catcher and manager, Connie Mack deserves much of the credit for writing `The Book' on baseball strategy and the managing of men. How he did it all is told here for the first time."-Roland Hemond, three-time winner of Major League Baseball's Executive of the Year award (Roland Hemond 11/28/2006)
"From the early beginnings of baseball into the modern era, no figure dominated the game like Connie Mack. In Norman Macht's book the legendary patriarch finally gets his deserved recognition from a serious historian. Macht has turned out a book which provides a true insight into baseball and its beginning as the National Pastime."-Ernie Harwell, Hall of Fame broadcaster for fifty-four years, the last forty-two for the Detroit Tigers (Ernie Harwell 03/13/2007)
"No other baseball manager is going to win-or lose-as many games as Connie Mack did in his fifty years managing the Philadelphia Athletics. A biography of Mack cannot help but be a history of baseball in the first half of the twentieth century, and this biography is a feast of interesting facts and judgments."-George F. Will, syndicated columnist and author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (George Will 11/26/2007)
"Comprehensive and interesting portrait of one of baseball's most successful managers. . . . A compelling look at a legend and an era."-Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Reviews )
"[A] mother lode of data, stories, perceptions about one of the legendary figures in the history of the national pastime. Like a fine wine, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball brings back Mack as player, manager, owner. If you are into baseball, get into this tome."-Harvey Frommer on Sports (Harvey Frommer on Sports )
Product Description
Connie Mack (1862–1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game’s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years of Mack’s life, through 1914, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball’s most legendary and beloved figure. Norman L. Macht chronicles Mack’s little-known beginnings. He tells how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created strategies for winning baseball and principles for managing men long before there were notions of defining such subjects. And he details how Mack, a key figure in the launching of the American League in 1901, won six of the league’s first fourteen pennants while serving as manager, treasurer, general manager, traveling secretary, and public relations and scouting director (all at the same time) for the Philadelphia Athletics. This book brings to life the unruly origins of baseball as a sport and a business. It also provides the first complete and accurate picture of a character who was greater than life and yet little known: the tricky, rule-bending catcher; the peppery field leader and fan favorite; the hot-tempered young manager. Illustrated with family photographs never before published, it affords unique insight into a colorful personality who helped shape baseball as we know it today. (08/21/2006)
Reader Reviews
This is a well researched, well written, detailed book on the life of Connie Mack. The author states he spent twenty-two years working on this book. The book is interesting from the start. In the forward, former United States Senator Connie Mack III tells about being a youngster and helping take care of his grandfather. It begins with the birth of Connie Mack and ends seven hundred pages later with the 1914 season. Connie Mack was not only very intelligent as a manager but also as a player in the National and Players Leagues. Mack had a large hand in helping form the American League and this book gives an account of how the American League was formed. Mack sent scouts or scouted on his own as he built the Philadelphia Athletics dynasty. Players such as Eddie Plank and Rube Waddell are brought to life. Also, Mack was very kind and giving, supporting many members of his family and friends. Several long standing beliefs about Mack are debunked. This book is a must read for baseball historians. Here is hoping 1915- is in the works.
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