There were no tears or celebrations when his life's obsession was done. There was only great relief.
"I was ready to be done," Norman Macht said. "I lived with it for so long."
Early this year, Macht sent off the galley proofs for the third and last volume of the Connie Mack biography he began in 1985.
He was 56 then. For three decades, he immersed himself in the man who managed and owned the Philadelphia Athletics for a half-century. He traveled everywhere Mack had been. He found people who had played for him, worked for him, lived with him.