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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (Hardcover)
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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (Hardcover)
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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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