Research Catalog

Title

Koppett's Concise history of major league baseball / Leonard Koppett.

Author

Koppett, Leonard.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xiv, 521 p.; 27 cm.

Summary

" ... provides an overview and explanation of all the major events and personalities that made baseball America's national game ... strategies ... fans and players ... controversies ... free agency, strike actions ... different commissioners and owners ..."--Cover.

Uniform Title

Concise history of major league baseball

Alternative Title

• Concise history of major league baseball
• Major league baseball

Subject

Baseball > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-497) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Premise -- Origins -- Preliminaries -- The National Association -- The League -- Chicago -- Two Leagues -- The Union Association -- The Revolt of the Players -- The Brotherhood -- Seasons 1890-91 -- The Monopoly -- Seasons 1892-99 -- The Majors -- War -- Seasons 1900-1902 -- Peace -- The World Series -- Ball Parks -- Gambling -- The Doubleday Myth -- Outlaw Leagues and Player Relations -- Seasons 1903-12 -- The Feds -- Seasons 1913-15 -- Real War -- Seasons 1916-18 -- The Blowup -- Seasons 1919-21 -- The Golden Age -- Lively Ball Baseball -- Selling the Offense -- New Owners -- Seasons 1922-25 -- The Commissioner -- Seasons 1926-28 -- Boom and Bust -- Hard Times -- The Farm System -- Yankees and A's -- Seasons 1929-33 -- An Age of Glory -- The New Stars -- Radio -- Lights -- The Hall of Fame -- Farm Systems and Administration -- "Break Up the Yankees!" -- Seasons 1934-41 -- A Changing World -- Wartime Baseball -- Seasons 1942-45 -- The Stars Are Back--and on TV! -- Integration -- Commissioner Chandler -- The Mexican League -- Antitrust -- Unionization -- Ford Frick -- Attendance -- Television and Radio -- Farm Systems -- Veeck as in Wreck -- The Pacific Coast League -- Radio and the Minors -- A New Yankee Dynasty -- Boston to Milwaukee -- Bonus Players -- Seasons 1946-52 -- Movement -- The Moves -- The Frick Administration -- The New New Stars -- The Minors -- Seasons 1953-57 -- Challenge -- The Continental League -- The Alternative -- Seasons 1958-60 -- Expansion.

ISBN

1566396387 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98004932^

OCLC

38215561

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library