August Garry Herrmann: A Baseball Biography

by William A. Cook

August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern management principles to municipal government and oversaw the committee that built Cincinnati's modern water works system, eventually did for baseball what he did for his home town, guiding it into a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786430737
• ISBN13: 9780786430734
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher