Connie Mack's '29 Triumph: The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty
McFarland & Company (series)
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Paperback Book Details
- 224 Pages
- Foreword by Dave Kindred
- Afterword by Ted Taylor
- Softcover
- Released: February 4, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
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Author: | William C. Kashatus |
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Description by OLDIES.com:
It has been said that Connie Mack managed only two kinds of teams during his half-century in the City of Brother Love - unbeatable and lousy. His teams collected nine pennants and five World Series titles, balanced by 17 last place finishes. While Mack, an enterprising businessman, had a gift for discovering talented players and molding them into a team, by the time he was well into his sixties, Philadelphians suspected that the A's skipper had lost his ability. Mack went on to disprove all doubts, however, with a second championship dynasty in 1929 that vindicated the "Tall Tactician."
This work chronicles the rise and fall of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics and their six-year rivalry with the New York Yankees, 1927 to 1932. Based primarily on newspaper accounts, the book tells the story of the "Grand Old Man of Baseball" - and the 1929 A's team that is unfairly overlooked in favor of the 1927 Yankees as baseball's greatest all-around team. This history is packed with photographs, notes and statistical appendices, and includes a foreword by The Sporting News writer Dave Kindred.
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- ISBN: 9780786421657
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