Major League Turbulence

Baseball in the Era of Drug Use, Labor Strife and Black Power, 1968-1988

Douglas M. Branson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

257 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8058-3 (ISBN)

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In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and dramatically changed nature of the game.

The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.

Douglas M. Branson is the Sell Chair in Law (emeritus) at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of more than 20 books.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Tabula Rasa: Baseball’s Golden Age

2. The Age of Innocence’s Final Years

3. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

4. In the Steel City: Dock Ellis, 1968–1975

5. Standard Bearer as Black Power Surfaces?

6. In the City of Brotherly Love: Dick Allen, 1963–1970

7. Baseball’s Biggest Outlaw

8. Pride of Wampum, Pennsylvania

9. Similarities and Differences: Ellis Versus Allen

10. Effects on the Game

11. Recreational Drugs Creep into Baseball

12. White Powder’s Allure

13. Drugs Come of Age

14. The Pittsburgh Drug Trials

15. Marvin Miller, the MLBPA, and Labor Strife

16. Twists and Turns in the Demise of the Reserve System

17. Major League Baseball’s Non-Answer

18. MLB’s Drug Abuse Target: Steve Howe

19. Users Left by the Wayside

20. Turbulence as the Bridge to PEDs

21. MLB Finally Regulates Drug Use

Postscript

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	13 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-8058-2 / 1476680582
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8058-3 / 9781476680583
Zustand	Neuware