Much More Than a Game Players, Owners, and American Baseball Since 1921

Name: Much More Than a Game Players, Owners, and American Baseball Since 1921
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ISBN: 9780807849088

ISBN-10: 0807849081

ISBN-13: 9780807849088

Edition: 2001

Authors: Robert F. Burk

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To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface



The Age of Rickey






1930-1940



1941-1949



1950-1965



The Age of Miller



1966-1972



1973-1979



1980-1988



1989-2000


Appendix


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index