Connie Mack's '29 Triumph

<p> It has been said that Connie Mack managed only two kinds of teams during his half-century in the City of Brother Love--unbeatable and lousy. His teams collected nine pennants and five World Series titles balanced by 17 last place finishes. While Mack an enterprising businessman had a gift for discovering talented players and molding them into a team by the time he was well into his sixties Philadelphians suspected that the A's skipper had lost his ability. Mack went on to disprove all doubts however with a second championship dynasty in 1929 that vindicated the Tall Tactician.</p><p> This work chronicles the rise and fall of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics and their six-year rivalry with the New York Yankees 1927 to 1932. Based primarily on newspaper accounts the book tells the story of the Grand Old Man of Baseball--and the 1929 A's team that is unfairly overlooked in favor of the 1927 Yankees as baseball's greatest all-around team. This history is packed with photographs notes and statistical appendices and includes a foreword by <I>The Sporting News</I> writer Dave Kindred.</p>