Whole Different Ball Game The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution

Name: Whole Different Ball Game The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution
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ISBN: 9781566635998

ISBN-10: 1566635993

ISBN-13: 9781566635998

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marvin Miller

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Marvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 8/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.12" wide x 8.22" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.144



Foreword



Introduction




To baseball



Brooklyn U.S.A



Making it to the majors



Take me out to the players association



Cannon country



Bowie Kuhn was not in the best interests of baseball



Alex Johnson : the maligned angel



Card wars



The six-thousand-dollar man



Flood gate



Strike one, 1972



Catfish



Messersmith-McNally



Not a strike ... not a strike ... not a ...



Strike two, 1980-1981



Take me out of the ball game



Lockout, 1990



Owners and other bosses



White collars and black sox : Giamatti and Vincent (or, say it ain't so!)