Bøger af Norman L. Macht

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, to 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.

Brings together a wide ranging collection of baseball voices from the Deadball Era to the 1970s, including nine Hall of Famers, who take the reader onto the field, into the dugouts and clubhouses, and inside the minds of both players and managers.

How Connie Mack built a team many consider baseball's greatest ever.

Chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. In Norman L. 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.

In November 1934, the Princeton football team - unbeaten in its last fifteen games - faced the 3-3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term ""underdogs"". As much a thrilling play-by-play account of college football at its finest as it is a fascinating work of sports history, this book chronicles the season that brought Princeton and Yale together in a game like no other since.