Frantic Frank Lane : Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer

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Frantic Frank Lane : Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780786470181
  • DDC分類 796.357092

Full Description

The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians from losers into pennant contenders almost overnight. He also worked--or tried to--as general manager of the Kansas City A's (Lane lasted eight months in 1961 under first-year owner Charlie Finley) and for the Milwaukee Brewers, where his boss was Bud Selig. He is best known for having traded 1959 American League home run champion Rocky Colavito to Detroit for the AL's 1959 batting champ, Harvey Kuenn, and for trading Indians manager Joe Gordon to Detroit for Tigers manager Jimmy Dykes.

During his brief absence from baseball (1962-1964), he signed on as general manager of the National Basketball Association's second-year expansion team, the Chicago Zephyrs. He became a "superscout" for the Baltimore Orioles for several years and, after leaving Milwaukee, had the same job with the Texas Rangers and, finally, the California Angels. He completed well over 500 major- and minor-league transactions in his career. Joe Garagiola put it best: "They used to say that the toughest job on any club Frank Lane was running belonged to the guy who had to take the team picture."

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Billy Pierce

Preface

Prologue: Chicago, June 1978

 1. Getting Started in Chicago, 1949-1950

 2. The Go-Go Sox Are Born, 1951-1952

 3. Serious Contenders, at Last, 1953-1954

 4. The Race Heats Up, and So Does Lane, 1955

 5. A. Busch, a Brewery and Almost a Pennant, 1956-1957

 6. A Troubling Debut as the Wigwam's Bigwig, 1958

 7. Fighting Some Old Friends for the Flag, 1959

 8. No More Rocky, No More Frank, 1960

 9. Kansas City, Here He Comes, 1961

10. Time Out for the NBA, 1962-1963

11. Scouting for Titles in Baltimore, 1965-1970

12. Making Bud Wiser in Milwaukee, 1971-1972

13. Closing It Out with the Cowboy, 1974-1979

Epilogue

Appendix I: The Best and Worst of Frank Lane

Appendix II: Lane's Major League Transactions

Appendix III: Lane's Five Rules of Trading

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index