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Connie Mack - The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 (Hardcover, New)
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Connie Mack - The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 (Hardcover, New)
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The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of
the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the
leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning
in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht's biography picks up the
story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and, in
an unprecedented reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven
years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's
rebuilding efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made
his teams the objects of public ridicule. At the age of fifty-nine
and in the face of widespread skepticism and seemingly
insurmountable odds, Connie Mack reasserted his genius, remade the
A's, and rose again to the top, even surpassing his earlier
success. Baseball biographer and historian Macht recreates what may
be the most remarkable chapter in this larger-than-life story. He
shows us the man and his time and the game of baseball in all its
nitty-gritty glory of the 1920s, and how Connie Mack built the
1929-1931 champions of Foxx, Simmons, Cochrane, Grove, Earnshaw,
Miller, Haas, Bishop, Dykes-a team many consider baseball's
greatest ever.
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