Connie Mack (1862 1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years of Mack s life, through 1914, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball s most legendary and beloved figure. Norman L. Macht chronicles Mack s little-known beginnings. He 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. And he details how Mack, a key...
Connie Mack (1862 1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years ...