Connie Mack's '29 Triumph

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 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 reveals Mack's professionalism and remarkable mastery of the game.