Topic: Connie Mack

Hat tip to Mebane Faber for finding this article at Forbes that among other things notes that Universal Investments (the fund that Nassim Taleb...

Connie Mack

Connie Mack is a Florida Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives . On March 18 , 2009 , Mack said that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should resign after the AIG , a company which has received billions of dollars in loans ...

The History of Connie Mack Stadium

Connie Mack Stadium, Shibe Park: one of the most historical and influential baseball parks in the illustrious history of United States sports.  The first entirely steel and concrete park constructed, it set architectural and aesthetic precedents that would not be broken for ...

Mickey Cochrane

Mickey Cochrane was the first major-leaguer to play a full season on a pennant-winning team managed by Connie Mack and then later manage a pennant winner himself. Joining the Mackmen in 1925, Cochrane caught a rookie-record 134 games while hitting .331. Cochrane ...

Do Managers Win Baseball Games?

John McGraw and Connie Mack were the dominant managerial figures of the first third of the last century. McGraw led the New York Giants for thirty years, winning a record ten pennants, including a National League record four in a row from ...

Is Your Home An Investment?

Robert Shiller was on the Connie Mack show this weekend, and he said that he thinks people have too much of their net worth tied up in their homes. Other people will tell you that your home is not an investment. If ...