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Connie Mack's First Dynasty

2017-10-13 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2017-10-13
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Book Synopsis Connie Mack's First Dynasty by : Lew Freedman

Download or read book Connie Mack's First Dynasty written by Lew Freedman. This book was released on 2017-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914. A's stars such as Hall of Famers Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, Albert "Chief" Bender and Frank "Home Run" Baker are well known among baseball aficionados--and this book reveals more about their lives and careers. Mack's pivotal role in founding the team and building it into a successful franchise--before he shocked the sports world by dismantling it--is covered, along with the advent of the all-but-forgotten Federal League.

A's Bad as It Gets

2014-03-13 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2014-03-13
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Book Synopsis A's Bad as It Gets by : John G. Robertson

Download or read book A's Bad as It Gets written by John G. Robertson. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a game-by-game account of the Philadelphia Athletics' pitiful 1916 season, in which they won just 36 of 154 games. It starts with a brief biography of the team's living symbol--A's manager and co-owner Connie Mack--and moves through the birth of the franchise and into its first era of glory in which the A's won world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. Following the A's stunning defeat in the 1914 World Series to the underdog Boston Braves, Mack dismantled his championship club and finished last in the American League for seven straight seasons. The 1916 campaign was the nadir. The team's few solid veterans had a supporting cast of underachievers, college boys, raw rookies, no-hopers, and sub-par pitching. The book chronicles the daily grind of a team that had no chance to begin with and quickly became the laughingstock of the AL. Many humorous anecdotes, needless to say!

Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

2007-01-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2007-01-01
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Book Synopsis Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by : Norman L. Macht

Download or read book Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball written by Norman L. Macht. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Mack was the Grand Old Man of baseball. This book, spanning first fifty-two years of Mack's life, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner. It 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.

My 66 Years in the Big Leagues

2009-01-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2009-01-01
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Book Synopsis My 66 Years in the Big Leagues by : Connie Mack

Download or read book My 66 Years in the Big Leagues written by Connie Mack. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Founding Father of modern baseball, Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy started out as a catcher and moved on to become the consummate manager and part owner of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1950. Better known as Connie Mack, he cut a dashing figure clad in a business suit and straw skimmer. With an even-tempered manner, "Mr. Mack" was regarded as a unique combination of coach and father figure by his players—who included such all-time greats as Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, and Chief Bender. This engaging autobiography, written with his characteristic warmth and enthusiasm, reads like a history of baseball during the first half of the twentieth century. Enhanced by seventy photos, Mack walks us through his amazing life—and the highlights of his legendary career. He holds the records for most wins and losses by a manager, he won nine American League pennants, brought the A's to eight World Series and won five of them. Plus, there has never been another man who has managed one sports team for fifty years. Achieving the ultimate recognition, the "Grand Old Man of Baseball" was elected to the National Hall of Fame in 1937, and was the first person chosen for the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.

The Grand Old Man of Baseball

2015-10-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2015-10-01
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Book Synopsis The Grand Old Man of Baseball by : Norman L. Macht

Download or read book The Grand Old Man of Baseball written by Norman L. Macht. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball’s greatest teams, the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack’s legacy as his team struggled on the field and at the gate. Among the challenges Mack faced: a sharp drop in attendance that forced him to sell his star players; the rise of the farm system, which he was slow to adopt; the opposition of other owners to night games, which he favored; the postwar integration of baseball, which he initially opposed; a split between the team’s heirs (Mack’s sons Roy and Earle on one side, their half brother Connie Jr. on the other) that tore apart the family and forced Mack to choose—unwisely—between them; and, finally, the disastrous 1951–54 seasons in which Roy and Earle ran the club to the brink of bankruptcy. By now aged and mentally infirm, Mack watched in bewilderment as the business he had built fell apart. Broke and in debt, Roy and Earle feuded over the sale of the team. In a never-before-revealed series of maneuvers, Roy double-crossed his father and brother and the team was sold and moved to Kansas City in 1954. In Macht’s third volume of his trilogy on Mack, he describes the physical, mental, and financial decline of Mack’s final years, which unfortunately became a classic American tragedy.

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