Overview

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.""

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Author:   Bob Vanderberg
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780786470181

ISBN 10:   0786470186
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   14 February 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of 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

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The late Bob Vanderberg spent nearly 37 years on the sports staff of the Chicago Tribune before retiring. He wrote three books on the Chicago White Sox and lived in Castle Rock, Colorado.

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