The Boston Globe, October 21st, 2007
BOOK REVIEW / A Reading Life One day as I was passing through East Brookfield on Route 9, I saw a street called Connie Mack Drive. Could it be, I wondered in great excitement, that this little burg in Central Massachusetts is part of what I call world history? The answer turned out to be yes. It was in this village - when it was a village - that "The Tall Tactician," Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy, great manager and owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, was born on Dec. 22, 1862. Shortly after this was revealed to me, the hand of fate delivered to my door Norman L. Macht's enormous "Connie Ma...
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