Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
by Norman L. Macht

“Comprehensive and interesting portrait of one of baseball’s most successful managers. . . . A compelling look at a legend and an era.”—Kirkus Reviews

“[R]ichly enjoyable.”—The Roanoke Times

“Maybe never in baseball history has one man labored for so long with such ultimate success. Norman Macht has brought us the true Connie Mack, and has done so in a most readable and informative style. How can you not love a book that begins, ‘The Irish had a bad year in 1846, finishing last in the international league. For the third straight year, the potato crop had failed like a staff of sore-armed pitchers.’? We should all spend the next 22 years turning out a triumph such as Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball,” clearly a major highlight of the 2007 baseball season.”—John Shiffert, “19 to 21” column at BaseballLibrary.com

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“[T]he tale Macht offers is often riveting.”—Library Journal

“[I]ncludes . . . many fascinating details of baseball from the 1880s to 1914.”—Boston Globe