Michael Tackett
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Michael Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell's early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and the teenage infatuation with politics...