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Frantic Frank Lane - Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer (Paperback, New)
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Frantic Frank Lane - Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer (Paperback, New)
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The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as
baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals
that turned the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and
Cleveland Indians from losers into pennant contenders almost
overnight. He also worked--or tried to--as general manager of the
Kansas City A's (Lane lasted eight months in 1961 under first-year
owner Charlie Finley) and for the Milwaukee Brewers, where his boss
was Bud Selig. He is best known for having traded 1959 American
League home run champion Rocky Colavito to Detroit for the AL's
1959 batting champ, Harvey Kuenn, and for trading Indians manager
Joe Gordon to Detroit for Tigers manager Jimmy Dykes. During his
brief absence from baseball (1962-1964), he signed on as general
manager of the National Basketball Association's second-year
expansion team, the Chicago Zephyrs. He became a ""superscout"" for
the Baltimore Orioles for several years and, after leaving
Milwaukee, had the same job with the Texas Rangers and, finally,
the California Angels. He completed well over 500 major- and
minor-league transactions in his career. Joe Garagiola put it best:
""They used to say that the toughest job on any club Frank Lane was
running belonged to the team photographer.
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