Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman - Hardcover

Green, G. Michael; Launius, Roger D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802717454 ISBN 13: 9780802717450

Publisher: Walker & Co, 2010

Synopsis

Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful—and most chaotic—baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the season—a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in.
Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature.

About this title

About the Author:

G. Michael Green and Roger Launius are members of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. When not indulging their baseball passions, Green is a senior planner at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D.C., while Launius is senior curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802717454
• ISBN 13: 9780802717450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357