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Charlie Finley - The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman - cover

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Charlie Finley - The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman

Roger D. Launius, G. Michael Green

Publisher: Walker Books

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Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin,  there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most  successful, most colorful-and most chaotic-baseball teams of all time.  They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the  A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his  team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during the  season-a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner,  engaged in. Drawing on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family  members, and colleagues, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present  "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's description of Finley  on the cover of an August 1975 issue) in all his contradictions:  generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories  surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of  which fills an important gap in baseball's literature.
Available since: 07/11/2011.

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