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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461394903321

Autore

Macht Norman L (Norman Lee), <1929->

Titolo

Connie Mack [[electronic resource] ] : the turbulent and triumphant years, 1915-1931 / / Norman L. Macht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-68773-8

9786613664679

0-8032-4035-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (720 p.)

Disciplina

796.357092

B

Soggetti

Baseball managers - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Baseball team owners - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Federal League Goes to Court; 2. Battle of the Bullheads; 3. Starting Over; 4. Courage and Convictions; 5. The McGillicuddys at Home; 6. A Different Kind of War; 7. Cutting Back; 8. 1918; 9. The Soldiers' Return; 10. Big Business-Big Fight; 11. The Babe Ruth Era Begins; 12. Judge Landis Presiding; 13. The Twenties' Curtain Goes Up; 14. Out of the Basement; 15. On the Rise; 16. "Hey, Big Spender"; 17. Johnson v. Landis; 18. Fort Myers; 19. In the Race Again; 20. Here Come the Yankees

21. Mr. Speaker and Mr. Cobb22. Struck by Lightning; 23. The Good Fight; 24. Back on Top; 25. World Champions; 26. Shibe Park and the Neighborhood; 27. A's Win;  World Loses; 28. 1930 World Series; 29. Baseball's Greatest Team?; 30. 1931 World Series; 31. Mr. Mack; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 o