Connie Mack and the early years of baseball - Macht, Norman L., (Norman Lee) (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Connie Mack was the Grand Old Man of baseball. This book, spanning first fifty-two years of Mack's life, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner. It tells how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created strategies for winning baseball and principles for managing men long before there were notions of defining such subjects