Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931

by Norman L. Macht

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803220391
• ISBN13: 9780803220393
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"