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Connie Mack and the early years of baseball /

Main Author: Macht, Norman L. 1929-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Mack, Connie, > 1862-1956.
Baseball managers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Baseball team owners > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Baseball > History. > United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
Baseball.
Baseball managers.
Baseball team owners.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
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Table of 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.

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