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Connie Mack, the turbulent and triumphant years, 1915-1931, Norman L. Macht

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Connie Mack

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Norman L. Macht

the turbulent and triumphant years, 1915-1931

The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where the second volume in Norman L. Macht's three-part biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's rebuilding efforts using youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule. At the age of 59 and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Connie Mack remade the A's and rose again to the top, even surpassing his earlier success. Baseball biographer and historian Macht shows us the man and his time and the game of baseball in all the glory of the 1920s, and how Connie Mack built the 1929-31 champions--a team many consider baseball's greatest ever.--From publisher description

The Federal League Goes to Court -- Battle of the Bullheads -- Starting Over -- Courage and Convictions -- The McGillicuddys at Home -- A Different Kind of War -- Cutting Back -- 1918 -- The Soldiers' Return -- Big Business-Big Fight -- The Babe Ruth Era Begins -- Judge Landis Presiding -- The Twenties' Curtain Goes Up -- Out of the Basement -- On the Rise -- "Hey, Big Spender" -- Johnson v. Landis -- Fort Myers -- In the Race Again -- Here Come the Yankees