| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 677 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 of fifty-nine and in |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Mack, Connie, 1862-1956.
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| SUBJECT |
Mack, Connie, 1862-1956 fast |
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Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) fast |
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Baseball managers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
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Baseball team owners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball managers
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Baseball team owners
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803240353 |
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080324035X |
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