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]
Subjects:
Baseball > United States > History > 20th century.
Baseball > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Baseball.
Baseball players.
Baseball > Social aspects.
United States.
1900-1999
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xv, 568 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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).