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The postwar Yankees : baseball's golden age revisited
- Title
- The postwar Yankees : baseball's golden age revisited / David G. Surdam.
- Author
- Surdam, David G. (David George)
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 425 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- New York Yankees (Baseball team) > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : what golden age? -- Those Damn Yankees : dominance and submission in the American League -- Player movement and building the Yankees : leaving soon from a (small) city near you -- The game on the ledger : doldrums amid prosperity -- Changing demographics, suburbia, and leisure patterns : why did baseball attendance fall? -- Television and baseball : the new technology, friend or foe? -- Where is Robin Hood when you need him? : revenue sharing in the American League -- Isn't anybody going to help that game? : baseball attempts to rejuvenate its popularity -- The major league cartel : keeping out the interlopers -- The sixteen-headed hydra : the cartel faces the enmity within -- The Yankees' dynasty : did success spoil the team and its fans? -- Epilogue : what if the golden age ended and nobody cared?
- Call Number
- JFE 08-7015
- ISBN
- 0803217897 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803217898 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008012923
- OCLC
- 221147845
- Author
- Surdam, David G. (David George)
- Title
- The postwar Yankees : baseball's golden age revisited / David G. Surdam.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-7015