The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in , 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 Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Connie Mack (–) 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 , covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball’s most legendary and beloved www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Norman L. Macht is the author of more than thirty books, including Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (Nebraska, ) and Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, – (Nebraska, ), as well as biographies of Cy Young, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research/5(32).
After researching Connie Mack for more than 20 years, author Norman Macht definitely knows his subject. Macht masterfully weaves the story of Mack and the early years of baseball in this page biography, which covers the time from Mack's birth in through The second volume of the author's massive biography of legendary baseball manager Connie Mack (). Macht's first volume (Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, ) covered the Hall of Famer's life up to age 52, a period during which his team, the Philadelphia Athletics, won six pennants and three World Series www.doorway.ru current volume covers some wilderness and some. Norman L. Macht is the author of more than thirty books, including Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (Nebraska, ) and Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, (Nebraska, ), as well as biographies of Cy Young, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
But there is much more to the story of Connie Mack aside from just being the first owner and manager (for more than 50 years) of the Athletics. His life, in and out of baseball, up to is chronicled in this excellent volume – which is the first of a three-volume set on Mr. Mack, as he was commonly called. Overview. Connie Mack () 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 , covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball's most legendary and beloved figure. Connie Mack (–) 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 , covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball’s most legendary and beloved figure.
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