
A's Bad as It Gets
This work is a game-by-game account of the Philadelphia Athletics'' pitiful 1916 season, in which they won just 36 of 154 games. It starts with a brief biography of the team''s living symbol--A''s manager and co-owner Connie Mack--and moves through the birth of the franchise and into its first era of glory in which the A''s won world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. Following the A''s stu...
This work is a game-by-game account of the Philadelphia Athletics'' pitiful 1916 season, in which they won just 36 of 154 games. It starts with a brief biography of the team''s living symbol--A''s manager and co-owner Connie Mack--and moves through the birth of the franchise and into its first era of glory in which the A''s won world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. Following the A''s stu...