Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931, Norman L. Macht
Автор: Norman L. Macht Название: Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball ISBN: 0803240031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803240032 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4460.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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 figure in the launching of the American League in 1901, won six of the league’s first fourteen pennants while serving as manager, treasurer, general manager, traveling secretary, and public relations and scouting director (all at the same time) for the Philadelphia Athletics.
This book brings to life the unruly origins of baseball as a sport and a business. It also provides the first complete and accurate picture of a character who was larger than life and yet little known: the tricky, rule-bending catcher; the peppery field leader and fan favorite; the hot-tempered young manager. Illustrated with family photographs never before published, it affords unique insight into a colorful personality who helped shape baseball as we know it today.
Автор: Jacobs Lindsey Название: Stronger: From Trials to Triathlete to Triumphant ISBN: 1733995846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733995849 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Not all women who are trapped in suffocating marriages grab a lifeline and pull themselves up, but not all women are Lindsey Jacobs. Worn to a nub of her former self, stripped of her self-confidence and esteem, she finally broke free from all that held her captive, only to face a life of now what? She was overwhelmed with unknowns. Her lifeline--her way back to herself and to all her potential--was through the one thing that had been her constant: running. Running led her to the world of extreme sports and eventually the Ironman--swimming, biking, and running in a contest that challenged her physical and emotional reserves but pulled her into her authentic, strong self.
If you feel trapped by circumstances you didn't design and think there's no way out; if you're an athlete and love sports; if you're a runner or if you're not, STRONGER will delight and inspire you to be your best and do your best.
In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball’s greatest teams, the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack’s legacy as his team struggled on the field and at the gate. Among the challenges Mack faced: a sharp drop in attendance that forced him to sell his star players; the rise of the farm system, which he was slow to adopt; the opposition of other owners to night games, which he favored; the postwar integration of baseball, which he initially opposed; a split between the team’s heirs (Mack’s sons Roy and Earle on one side, their half brother Connie Jr. on the other) that tore apart the family and forced Mack to choose—unwisely—between them; and, finally, the disastrous 1951–54 seasons in which Roy and Earle ran the club to the brink of bankruptcy.
By now aged and mentally infirm, Mack watched in bewilderment as the business he had built fell apart. Broke and in debt, Roy and Earle feuded over the sale of the team. In a never-before-revealed series of maneuvers, Roy double-crossed his father and brother and the team was sold and moved to Kansas City in 1954.
In Macht’s third volume of his trilogy on Mack, he describes the physical, mental, and financial decline of Mack’s final years, which unfortunately became a classic American tragedy.
Автор: Norman L. Macht Название: Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball ISBN: 0803232632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803232631 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 6006.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
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 figure in the launching of the American League in 1901, won six of the league’s first fourteen pennants while serving as manager, treasurer, general manager, traveling secretary, and public relations and scouting director (all at the same time) for the Philadelphia Athletics.
This book brings to life the unruly origins of baseball as a sport and a business. It also provides the first complete and accurate picture of a character who was larger than life and yet little known: the tricky, rule-bending catcher; the peppery field leader and fan favorite; the hot-tempered young manager. Illustrated with family photographs never before published, it affords unique insight into a colorful personality who helped shape baseball as we know it today.
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