Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-2041-6 (ISBN)
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With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history.
At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement.
Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts, minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension plan--the very issues that would divide players and owners almost fifty years later.
During these years, the game was led by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated, unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to complain that he was the "player's commissioner, the fan's commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's commissioner but the men who pay him."
William Marshall is a serving lieutenant colonel in the South African National Defence Force, currently posted to the Joint Operations Division as staff officer, Doctrine Development Centre. He saw active service during the Border War and in 1987 was seconded to the newly formed KwaNdebele Defence Force. William went on to serve with 115 SA Infantry Battalion as second in command and in 1998, was posted to 73 SA Bde as HQ Unit Commander. He has a passion for things Second World War and helped with the development of the SA Colours & Markings series of books. He has also assisted with a number of other publications including the Polish-printed Armor Color Gallery work on the Comet tank and a French publication on the Marmon-Herrington armoured car. He has published two works on the 6th SA Armoured Division in Italy during 2010 and has just published a History of the Marmon-Herrington armoured car.
| Zusatzinfo | illus |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lexington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8131-2041-1 / 0813120411 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-2041-6 / 9780813120416 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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