Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 302 páginas America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work force: its ethnocultural makeup, its economic position, and its battles for a place at the table in baseball's decision-making structure. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growing popularity of baseball as a spectator sport and the dramatic upsurge of America's urban population created conditions that led to franchise competition, the development of rival leagues, and trade wars, in turn triggering boom-and-bust cycles, franchise bankruptcies, and league mergers. According to Burk, players repeatedly tried to use these circumstances to better their economic positions by playing one team off against another. Their successes proved short-lived, however, because their own internal divisions, exploited by management, undercut attempts to create collective-bargaining institutions. By 1920, owners still held the upper hand in the labor-management battle, but as today's sports pages show, owners did not secure a long-term solution to their labor problems. |
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Barons and Serfs 18761885 | 50 |
Retrenchment and Revolt 18851890 | 81 |
Monopoly Ball 18911899 | 116 |
Baseball Progressivism and the Player 19001909 | 142 |
The Players Fraternity and the Federal League 19101915 | 178 |
War and the Quest for Normalcy 19161920 | 210 |
Appendix | 241 |
Notes | 249 |
Bibliographic Essay | 267 |
Index | 273 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920 Robert F. Burk Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920 Robert Fredrick Burk Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
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