TY - BOOK ID - 30681091 TI - Joe Cronin : a life in baseball PY - 2010 SN - 1282555774 9786612555770 0803229968 080322530X 9780803229969 9780803225305 9780803269569 0803269560 0803277113 080323497X 0803277105 1496206010 9780803277106 9780803277113 9780803234970 9780803277120 9781496206015 PB - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - Baseball players KW - Baseball player-managers KW - Cronin, Joe, KW - American League of Professional Baseball Clubs KW - Presidents KW - Baseball playing managers KW - Cronin, Joseph Edward, KW - American League KW - AL (American League) KW - Major League Baseball (Organization). KW - Bí-kok Liân-bêng KW - Lliga Americana de Beisbol KW - Liga Americana KW - Liga Americana de Clubes de Béisbol Profesional KW - Amerika Ligo KW - Ligue américaine KW - אמריקן ליג KW - Ameriḳen Lig KW - アメリカンリーグ KW - Amerikanrīgu KW - Американская лига KW - Amerikanskai︠a︡ liga KW - Американська ліга KW - Amerykansʹka liha KW - 美國聯盟 KW - Meiguo lian meng KW - Baseball managers KW - Major League Baseball (Organization) KW - Baseball teams KW - Baseball KW - History. KW - Management. KW - Economic aspects KW - Base-ball KW - Ball games UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30681091 AB - From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of the game, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseball's major players, both on the field and off. For most of his playing career, Cronin (1906-84) was the best shortstop in baseball. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956. A manager by the age of twenty-six and general manager at forty-one, Cronin was the youngest player-manager ever to play in the World Series, and he managed the Red Sox longer than any other man in history. As president of the American League, he oversaw two expansions, four franchi ER -