From an award-winning New York Times sports columnist, the definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures--lege

In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But

Description: David Falkner, highly acclaimed author of The Short Season, pens the first full biography of one of the most controversial baseball figures to date

The definitive history of the world's greatest baseball team—with an all new afterword by the author.

“A funny, revealing, Ball Four–like romp through mid-seventies baseball” from the longtime sports columnist and author of The Last Real Season (Booklist).