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Earl Mack, the manager of the All-Stars, gained his coaching experience from the best- his father the legendary Connie
Mack. Earl began coaching for his father and the Philadelphia Athletics when it became apparent he would never make it in the big
leagues. Over the years Earl conducted barnstorming tours almost every off-season. His lifelong connections in the baseball world
made him ideal to organize and manage these teams. When Connie became too old to actively manage the A's in the early 1950's it was
thought by many that Earl would take over the team- after all, it was family owned and it seemed a natural progression. However,
Connie wouldn't allow it and as one sportswriter put it at the time, "...Earl went senile before his father".
Despite this Earl had all his faculties in 1932 and many of the games on the tour he arranged as they traveled.
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