Frantic Frank Lane: Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer

by Bob Vanderberg and Frank Lane

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786470186
• ISBN13: 9780786470181
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher