Baseball : the turbulent midcentury years / Steven P. Gietschier.

"A history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the game on and off the field and tracing its development within the broader contours of American history"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gietschier, Steven Philip, 1948- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
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Physical Description:xv, 568 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Prologue: "a grim harvest" (Ernest Barnard) -- "The ball player Is a fortunate man" (Connie Mack) -- "So you're the goddamned prohibitionist" (Branch Rickey) -- "A tyro in the intricacies of organized baseball" (Kenesaw Landis) -- "The Yankees need building up" (Ed Barrow) -- "Keen competition throughout the closing month" (Larry MacPhail) -- "They could never say he wasn't a 'real Jew'" (Hank Greenberg) -- "It would be best for the country to keep baseball going" (Don Barnes) -- "A great display of tingling patriotism" (Yogi Berra) -- "The smiling young man with the $1,000,000 check book" (Tom Yawkey) -- "Bright colored paper and red ribbons" (Bill Veeck) -- "Il a gagné ses epaulettes" (Red Barber) -- "A sound if not spectacular choice" (Ford Frick) -- "I have long desired to see California" (Henry Aaron) -- "Henry, don't go out there" (Bill Shea). 
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