Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

by Norman L. Macht

“Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball,” the long-awaited biography of the A’s legendary manager by Norman L. Macht, will be published in July 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press and should be in bookstores by August. The book includes numerous photos, including those of Mack’s mother and first-born daughter that have never been published.

“It took 22 years and 736 pages for me to try to adequately—and accurately—depict just the first half (through 1914) of the life and times of the remarkable Mr. Mack,” said Macht, who is A’s Society member #204.

Syndicated columnist and baseball author George Will had a preview of the book and observed, “A biography of Mack cannot help but be a history of baseball in the first half of the twentieth century, and this biography is a feast of interesting facts and judgments.”

Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell commented, “In Norman Macht’s book the legendary patriarch finally gets his deserved recognition from a serious historian.”

Connie Mack and the

Early Years of Baseball

by Norman L. Macht

736 pages, 21 photos