Articles by Norman L. Macht

view	Baseball’s Greatest Outfield They were born a hundred years too soon. They wrote the record books when it was still too early to rewrite them. Today they would be the $100 million outfield.
view	Talkative Catchers Going back to the nineteenth century, when Connie Mack was distracting batters by tipping bats and chirping small talk while catching with a fingerless, unpadded buckskin glove, creative catchers used whatever tactics they could get away with to break a batter’s concentration. A hundred years later, National League catcher Gary Carter may have been the last of the breed.
view	The Real Steve Carlton Left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton was the last of the workhorses of the mound. His 24-year career (1965-1988) included a four-year stretch in which he averaged over 300 IP. In 1972 he started 41 games and completed 30 of them. His career 329-244 record and 3.32 ERA earned him election to the Hall of Fame in 1994. But few people really knew him.
view	The Young Jimmie Foxx* How the Farm Boy Became the Beast of Baseball Based on research and interviews for a young readers’ biography of Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx, published in 1991 by Chelsea House. A three-time AL MVP, Fox hit 534 home runs in his career with the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and Phillies.
view	Ultimate Utility Players Woody English, Jimmy Dykes, and Barney Friberg.
view	What I’ve Learned from Books The only time I hate books is at moving time.