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Connie Mack : the Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description: | Includes index. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 677 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780803240353 080324035X |