num_pages: 350
description: The championship 1929 season, the Philadelphia Athletics' high point in a vigorous six-year rivalry with the New York Yankees, sealed Connie Mack's durable reputation as the paragon of baseball managers. At the advanced age of 66, he had built a team that can be considered to rival the 1927 Yankees as baseball's greatest.This chronicle of the A's victorious 1929 season, drawing from contemporary newspaper accounts and interviews, reveals Mack's professionalism and remarkable mastery of the game.
language: English
title: Connie Mack's '29 Triumph : The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty
titlecomplete: Connie Mack's '29 Triumph : The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty
characters: Connie Mack
ratings_count: 10
publisher: McFarland Publishing