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Prior to the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the first 1970s, one of the very most successful, most brilliant - & most chaotic - baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not merely the A's owner, he was also the overall manager, individually assembling his team, deciding his players' wages, and making player goes during theseason - a level of involvement no other owner, not Steinbrenner, employed in. Pulling on interviews with dozens of Finley's players, family members, and fellow workers, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius present "Baseball's Super Showman" (Time magazine's explanation of Finleyon the cover of any August 1975 concern) in every his contradictions: generous yet vengeful, inventive yet destructive. The stories encompassing him are as brilliant as the life span he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's books.
