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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Connie Mack has celebrated his birthday on Dec. 23. Last summer he visited his birthplace (East Brookfield, Mass.), discovered he was born Dec. 22, 1862, decided it was too late to change and plans to continue observing his nativity on the 23rd. It is characteristic that the Mack legend, greatest in baseball history, should start right off with a myth...
...Central Massachusetts League-when catchers caught the ball on first bounce. Three years later he made his major-league debut as a catcher for Washington and in 1894 he landed his first managerial job-with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But it was with Milwaukee (1897-1900) that Connie Mack's metamorphosis from a catcher to a manager was really made. At the end of the 1900 season (the year the American League was formed) he went to Philadelphia, was able to persuade
Benjamin F. Shibe. a manufacturer of baseball equipment, to build a ball park and buy a ball team. The Athletics, with Mack as manager, played their first game in 1901, won their first pennant in 1902, their second in 1905. But Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking...
...Connie Mack had developed his second great team with Grove, Walberg and Earnshaw pitching, Mickey Cochrane catching. The team won three pennants in a row, was so invincible that Philadelphia fans became bored with it and stayed away from Shibe Park. The Athletics lost money, and, as in 1914, Connie Mack started to sell out. Owner Thomas Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox paid him almost half a million dollars to get Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Bob Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop. The Chicago White Sox bought Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons, George Haas, George Earnshaw. Detroit took Mickey Cochrane...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...