| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. By Norman L. Macht. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 724 pp. Illustrations, sources, index. $39.95.)
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, by Norman Macht, is the end result of a twenty-two-year project. Anytime a question arose about Mack or his teams, the response was "check with Norman." It was hoped that the biography of the extraordinary Connie Mack would not outlast its author. This seven-hundred-page text is just the prelude to Mack's amazing relationship with baseball and his beloved Philadelphia Athletics. Another forty years have yet to be chronicled.	1
It was once suggested that writing Mack's biography was impossible. Many feared that when the Athletics moved to Kansas City in 1954, Mack's papers and records were loaded onto a moving van and taken to the local dump. No one, with the exception of Norman Macht, can say for sure whether this anecdote is accurate. Documenting such stories, however, is the only significant disappointment with Macht's masterful study.	. . .

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