Taking on the Yankees Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball

Name: Taking on the Yankees Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball
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ISBN: 9780393326741

ISBN-10: 0393326748

ISBN-13: 9780393326741

Edition: 2005

Authors: Henry D. Fetter

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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.968

Henry D. Fetter is a lawyer and writer whose work has appeared in the Journal of Sport History, The Public Interest, and the Times Literary Supplement. A native New Yorker, he lives in Los Angeles.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Going to "Goatville"



The Rise of the Yankees



The Fall of the Giants



The Residue of Design?


Interlude: New York to St. Louis



The Problem



The Opportunity



The Ambiguous Payoff



A Rich Man and a Despised Man


Interlude: St. Louis to Brooklyn



The Case Against Brooklyn


Map - Major League Baseball: Consolidation and Expansion



Stadium Games


Map - Downtown Brooklyn Stadium Planning



From East to West



Damn Yankees, After All


Interlude: After Ebbets Field



A Dynasty Stumbles



Freeing the Serfs



Playing Under New Rules


Epilogue: Baseball's Enduring Paradox


Appendix


Notes


Index