Connie Mack the turbulent and triumphant years, 1915-1931
The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht's biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
2012.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3079304x*spi |
Sumario: | The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht's biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and, in an unprecedented reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's rebuilding efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule. At the age of fifty-nine and in. |
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Notas: | Incluye índice. |
Descripción Física: | xii, 677 p., [26] p. de lám. : il |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780803240353 |