Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

Download or read book Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball written by Norman L. Macht and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.