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Levy, Alan H. Joe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty. McFarland. 2005. 429p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7864-1961-X. pap. $35. SPORTS
Levy (history, Slippery Rock Univ.; Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist) competently derivers the first, full biographical treatment of the great New York Yankee manager, who also guided another pair of signature major league teams, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox. Joe McCarthy led the Cubs to the 1929 National League pennant and came close with the long ill-fated Red Sox in both 1948 and 1949, but his claim to fame resides with his stewardship of the most famous ball club in professional …