Reviews
"Connie Mack may not have been a swatter of home runs or a .300 hitter but he lasted in the game longer than just about anybody. He truly is a baseball legend and his entire story has just been written so thoroughly that it should be considered the final word on the subject." --Baseball Historian, "[ The Grand Old Man of Baseball ] must stand as the go-to resource on one of baseball's most legendary figures."--David Welky, Journal of Sport History, "Impeccably researched and finely judged, The Grand Old Man of Baseball , the third volume of Norman Macht's definitive biography of Connie Mack, combines fascinating detail with narrative skill to dispel the uncertainty and confusion that has long surrounded the sale and relocation of the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City, setting the record straight on what really happened."--Bob Warrington, Philadelphia baseball historian and author, Praise for Norman L. Macht's earlier volumes on Connie Mack: "A major addition to the study of the game and its longest-serving icon."-- NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture "As a catcher and manager, Connie Mack deserves much of the credit for writing 'The Book' on baseball strategy and the managing of men. How he did it all is told here for the first time."--Roland Hemond, three-time winner of Major League Baseball's Executive of the Year award "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."--George F. Will, syndicated columnist and author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball "Like the man he continues to so capably chronicle, Norman Macht is astute, authoritative, and meticulous. If you want to learn about twentieth-century baseball, you'll have to read this book."--Bob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger , "If ever a baseball book could be called a definitive biography, this examination of Connie Mack can."--Ross Atkin, Christian Science Monitor, "Mack's effect was far-reaching. So, too, is Macht's treatment of Mack's career."-- Bob D'Angelo's Books & Blogs
