| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 708 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Growing up in East Brookfield -- The young catcher -- A rookie in Meriden -- The bones battery -- From Hartford to Washington -- Life in the big leagues -- Mr. and Mrs. Connie Mack -- Jumping with the brotherhood -- The players' league -- Uncertainties of life and baseball -- Connie Mack, manager -- The terrible-tempered Mr. Mack -- Fired -- Milwaukee -- Working the system -- Learning how to handle men -- Marching behind Ban Johnson -- Launching the new American League -- The City of Brotherly Love and "Uncle Ben" Shibe -- Columbia Park and the "Athaletics" -- Raiding the National League -- The bullfrogs -- The uniqueness of Napoleon Lajoie -- Winning the battle of Philadelphia -- A staggering blow -- Schreck and the rube and the white elephant -- Connie Mack's first pennant -- Signing a treaty -- The profits of peace -- The Macks of Philadelphia -- The first "official" World Series -- Rebuilding begins -- "We wuz robbed" -- Connie Mack's baseball school -- Shibe Park -- Connie's kids graduate -- World champions -- Mr. and Mrs. Connie Mack--part II -- The $100,000 infield -- The home run Baker World Series -- Coasting down to third place -- Speaking of money -- Captain Hook -- The second beating of John McGraw -- Another baseball war -- The Athletics win another pennant--ho hum -- Swept -- The end of the beginning. |
| Summary |
Connie Mack was the Grand Old Man of baseball. This book, spanning first fifty-two years of Mack's life, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner. It 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Mack, Connie, 1862-1956.
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Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) -- History.
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Mack, Connie, 1862-1956.
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Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
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Mack, Connie, 1862-1956. (OCoLC)fst00048257
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Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) (OCoLC)fst00540783
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Baseball managers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
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Baseball team owners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
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Baseball -- United States -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball. (OCoLC)fst00827904
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Baseball managers. (OCoLC)fst00828003
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Baseball team owners. (OCoLC)fst00828039
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
(OCoLC)fst01204170
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Macht, Norman L. (Norman Lee), 1929- Connie Mack and the early years of baseball. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 9780803232631 0803232632 (DLC) 2006102532 (OCoLC)77271141 |
| ISBN |
9780803209909 (electronic bk.) |
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0803209908 (electronic bk.) |
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