num_pages: 368
description: Before the Bronx Zoo of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s one of the most successful most colorfuland most chaoticbaseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner he was also the general manager personally assembling his team deciding his players' salaries and making player moves during the seasona level of involvement no other owner not even Steinbrenner engaged in.Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players family members and colleagues G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present Baseball's Super Showman ( Time magazine's description of Finley on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his generous yet vengeful inventive yet destructive. The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature.
language: English
title: Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman
publisher: Walker Books