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Pages
708

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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
September 1, 2007, University of Nebraska Press
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Connie Mack and the early years of baseball
2007, University of Nebraska Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Lincoln
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.357092, B
Library of Congress
GV865.M215 M33 2007, GV865.M215M33 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
708

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17556931M
Internet Archive
conniemackearlyy00mach
ISBN 13
9780803232631
LCCN
2006102532
OCLC/WorldCat
77271141
Goodreads
2266089

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