Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball - Couverture souple

Macht, Norman L.

 
9780803240032: Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803240031 ISBN 13 : 9780803240032
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 larger 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803240031
ISBN 13 
9780803240032
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
742
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780803232631: Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0803232632 ISBN 13 :  9780803232631
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2007
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