Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball - Softcover

Norman L. Macht

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803240031 ISBN 13: 9780803240032

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Synopsis

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Review:

"[Includes] many fascinating details of baseball from the 1880s to 1914."--"Boston Globe"--Katherine A. Powers "Boston Globe "

"The tale Macht offers is often riveting."--"Library Journal"--Robert Cottrell "Library Journal "

"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 (03/13/2007)

"Richly enjoyable."--"Roanoke Times"--Bob Willis "The Roanoke Times "

"[Includes many fascinating details of baseball from the 1880s to 1914."--"Boston Globe"--Katherine A. Powers "Boston Globe "

About the Author:

Norman L. Macht is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the author of more than thirty books, including biographies of Rowdy Richard (with Dick Bartell) and Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu (with Rex Barney).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0803240031
• ISBN 13: 9780803240032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 742