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Informationen zum Autor William A. Cook is the author of numerous books, including 11 on baseball history, and has appeared in productions on ESPN2 and the MLB Network. A former health care administrator and township councilman in North Brunswick, New Jersey, he resides in Manalapan, New Jersey. Klappentext August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern management principles to municipal government and oversaw the committee that built Cincinnati's modern water works system, eventually did for baseball what he did for his home town, guiding it into a new century. Along with George B. Cox and Cincinnati mayor Julius Fleischmann, Herrmann bought the Cincinnati Reds from John T. Brush in 1902. By 1903 he had chaired the peace conference between the leagues that ushered in the modern game. With the leagues united, Herrmann was selected to head up the National Commission, a three-person ruling body that governed major league baseball in the years before the commissionership. Zusammenfassung Born in 1895 and rising up from humble beginnings in Cincinnati! August ""Garry"" Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in the city serving as a trusted lieutenant to George B Cox! one of the political bosses in the country. This biography contains the life and times of August ""Garry"" Herrmann. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Career Path to the Major Leagues II. The Rise of the American League III. The Machine Buys the Reds IV. The National Commission V. Fleischmann Re-elected and a World Series Begins VI. The Machine Crashes VII. The Ed Phelps Decision VIII. Tinker to Evers to Chance and a Little Help from Herrmann IX. Accolades for Herrmann and Merkle's Boner X. 1909-A Year of Tragedies and Triumphs XI. Batting Kings and a Feud with Fogel XII. The Fat Lady Sings for a Boss and a Palace XIII. Cobb Explodes and Taft Tumbles XIV. National League Melodrama XV. The Teflon Boss XVI. Herrmann's Joe Tinker Experiment XVII. War with the Feds Begins XVIII. Feds Fold and the Sisler Decision XIX. 1916-Grief and Turmoil for Herrmann XX. The Great War and the Great American Game XXI. 1919-Baseball's Achilles' Heel XXII. Herrmann Quits and the Scandal Breaks XXIII. The Black Sox Trial XXIV. Herrmann's Last Stand Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
