Baseball Personnel by Team - Hawaii Islanders Managers, Major League Baseball Personnel by Team, List of Oakland Athletics Managers (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hawaii Islanders Managers, Major League Baseball Personnel by Team, List of Oakland Athletics Managers, List of New York Yankees Owners and Executives, Bill Werle, Bob Lemon, Tom Trebelhorn, Chuck Tanner, George Case, List of Cleveland Indians Owners and Managers, Rocky Bridges, Houston Astros Managers and Ownership, Wayne Terwilliger, Doug Rader, Roy Hartsfield, Dick Phillips, Irv Noren, Detroit Tigers Managers and Ownership, Tommy Heath, Bob Bailey, List of Oakland Athletics Owners and Managers, Bill Adair, List of Seattle Mariners Managers and Ownership, Warren Hacker, Tommy Sandt. Excerpt: The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California, USA. The team played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1901 through 1954 and in Kansas City, Missouri from 1955 through 1967. The Athletics are members of the American League (AL) West Division in Major League Baseball (MLB). In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Since starting to play in 1901, the team has employed 29 different managers. The current Athletics manager is Bob Geren and the current general manager is Billy Beane. The franchise's first manager was Hall of Famer Connie Mack, who managed the team for its first fifty seasons. Mack led the Athletics to nine American League championships and five World Series championships in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 and 1930. The team lost the World Series in 1905, 1914 and 1931, and no World Series was played in 1902. After Jimmie Dykes replaced Mack as the Athletics' manager in 1951, no manager served more than three consecutive seasons until Tony LaRussa, who became the Athl... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19353562