Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920University of North Carolina Press, 1994 - 284 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. "Burk proves that when it comes to baseball's money issues, the more things change--the more they stay the same.--USA Today Baseball Weekly "A lively, highly readable volume filled with fascinating anecdotes. . . . The book will appeal to both the serious student of business history and the layman with merely an interest in the game itself.--Business History America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this labor history of baseball from its beginning to 1920, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work force and recounts its battles for a place in baseball's decision-making structure. Tracing the development of franchise competition, rival leagues, and trade wars--and the boom-and-bust cycles, franchise bankruptcies, and league mergers they triggered in turn--he explores the off-field acrimony that characterized the sport's labor-management relations. |
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From Congregants to Contestants | 1 |
A National Game and Its Journeymen 18601875 | 22 |
Barons and Serfs 18761885 | 50 |
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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 F. Burk Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
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Adelman Albert Spalding American Association American Baseball American League Association's ballplayers ballplaying Ban Johnson Base Ball baseball's baseman batting average blacklist Boston Brooklyn Business of Major cartel catcher Chicago Cincinnati circuit City claimed Cleveland competitive contract despite draft Early Eastern League ethnic fans Federal League franchise fraternity Fultz Garry Herrmann gate Giants Herrmann Hulbert individual industry interclub Irish John McGraw John Montgomery Ward jumped Knickerbockers labor league clubs League's Louis Major League Baseball minor National Agreement National Association National Commission National League NL clubs NL owners offered on-field Organized Baseball payroll percent Philadelphia Philadelphia Athletics Phillies pitcher Pittsburgh player force Playing for Keeps president Press professional refused reserve clause rival rosters rules salary schedule season Seymour signed Spalding spectators Sporting stars talent teammates tion tional trade umpires Union Association veterans Voigt wage Ward White Stockings Yankee York
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