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The Continental League : a personal history

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Continental League (Baseball league)

Description

x, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league's brief history affords a glimpse of any number of missed chances for America's game. As one of the original Continental Leaguers, historian Russell D. Buhite is--literally--talking "inside baseball" when he describes what happened in 1959 and 1960. Part memoir, part history, his account of the origin, development, and eventual undoing of the Continental League explores the organization's collective corporate structure as well as its significant role in building a thriving Minor League and forcing expansion on Major League Baseball. Buhite captures a lost era in baseball history and examines its lasting impact on the game. "--
"The history of the Continental League, the last serious attempt to start a third major league"--

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Call Number

JFD 14-3073

ISBN

LCCN

2013043806

OCLC

2013043806

Author

Buhite, Russell D.

Title

The Continental League : a personal history / Russell D. Buhite.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211).

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Continental League (Baseball league)

Research Call Number

JFD 14-3073