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Never Just a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920

By: Robert F. Burk

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Never Just a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920

By: Robert F. Burk

America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk d

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849618

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9780807849613

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

By: Robert F Burk

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Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

By: Robert F Burk

Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows the formative encounters with Depression-era hard times, racial and religious bigotry, and bare-knuckle Washington and labor politics that prepared Miller for his biggest professional challenge--running the moribund Major League Baseball Players Association. Educating and uniting the players as a workforce, Miller embarked on a long campaign to win the concessions that defined his legacy: decent workplace conditions, a pension system, outside mediation of player grievances and salary disputes, a system of profit sharing, and the long-sought dismantling of the reserve clause that opened the door to free agency. Through it all, allies and adversaries alike praised Miller's hardnosed attitude, work ethic, and honesty. Comprehensive and illuminating, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary tells the inside story of a time of change in sports and labor relations, and of the contentious process that gave athletes in baseball and across the sporting world a powerful voice in their own games.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096703

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9780252096709

Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

By: Robert F. Burk

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Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

By: Robert F. Burk

To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875376

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9780807875377

Smart Ball

Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball

By: Robert F. Lewis II

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Smart Ball

Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball

By: Robert F. Lewis II

Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496800680

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9781496800688

Hero of the Heartland

Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935

By: Robert F. Martin

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Hero of the Heartland

Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935

By: Robert F. Martin

Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis." -- Randall Balmer, author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was the most popular and influential evangelist of his time. Between 1896 and 1935, the colorful Iowa-born evangelist toured first his native Midwest and then the nation, preaching in tent and tabernacle, espousing a simplistic but, for many, deeply satisfying interpretation of Christianity. Embodying the traditional values and attitudes of the heartland and at home in an increasingly diverse, urban, industrial America, Sunday won the hearts -- and the pocketbooks -- of millions of Americans. Hero of the Heartland is an interpretive biography that focuses on the ways in which the man and his career resonated with the hopes and fears of his contemporaries as they coped with the economic, social, and cultural changes around the start of the 20th century. Robert F. Martin shows how Sunday and his revivalism helped his followers bridge the gap between the traditional past and the progressive future, and made more comfortable the transition from the old order to the new.

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Indiana University Press

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0253109523

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9780253109521

Center Field Shot

A History of Baseball on Television

By: James R. Walker,Robert V. Bellamy

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A History of Baseball on Television

By: James R. Walker,Robert V. Bellamy

This work explores how the new medium of television changed America's pastime and traces the sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship between baseball and television, from the first televised game in 1939 to the modern-day world of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition television. Original.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803248253

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9780803248250

The Mortal Presidency

Illness And Anguish In The White House

By: Robert E. Gilbert

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The Mortal Presidency

Illness And Anguish In The White House

By: Robert E. Gilbert

The presidency is hazardous to your helth. Fully two-thirds of our presidents have died before reaching their life-expectancy- despite being wealthier, better educated, and better cared for that most Americans. In Mortal Presidency, the first complete account of death and illness in the White House, Robert E. Gilbert looks at modern presidents including Coolidge, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan. He shows- in some cases, for the first time- that all suffered from debilitating medical problems, physical and/or psychological, which they frequently managed to conceal from the public but which, in important ways, affected their political lives. This edition is updated to include a brief look at Presidents Clinton and Bush, both of whom suffered sudden and unpleasant indispositions while in office which to some degree affected their presidencies.

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Basic Books

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0465047297

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9780465047291

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Eleventh Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284220311

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9781284220315

America, Past and Present

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

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America, Past and Present

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

With its careful balance of the social and political dimensions of the American past, "America Past and Present, Sixth Edition, Volume Two" helps readers grasp the scope and the complexity of American history since 1865. This book integrates political, diplomatic, social, cultural and economic history into one rich narrative that tells the story of all Americans-whites, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, politicians, business leaders, and the everyday person on the street. For anyone interested in American history since 1865.

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662

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321084039

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9780321084033

Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball

By: Robert P. Gelzheiser

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Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball

By: Robert P. Gelzheiser

This work explores the early history of professional baseball in the United States, the factors that contributed to the player rebellion of 1890, and the rebellion's impact on the player-owner relationship. Appendices include a roster of the 1869 Cincinn

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McFarland

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078642169X

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9780786421695

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

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Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.

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McFarland

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0786491744

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9780786491742

The Corporate State and the Broker State

The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940

By: Robert Fredrick Burk

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The Corporate State and the Broker State

The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940

By: Robert Fredrick Burk

The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought policies that gave government more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.

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Harvard University Press

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0674172728

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9780674172722

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284229858

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9781284229851

Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, & American Baseball Since 1921

By: Robert Fredrick Burk

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Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, & American Baseball Since 1921

By: Robert Fredrick Burk

A history of baseball since 1921 describes the "paternalistic era," when racial segregation was rigidly maintained, and the "inflationary era," when unions fought for increasingly higher pay and occupational mobility.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849081

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9780807849088

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

By: Robert F Burk

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By: Robert F Burk

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Never Just a Game

Never Just a Game

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

Much More Than a Game

Much More Than a Game

Smart Ball

Smart Ball

Hero of the Heartland

Hero of the Heartland

Center Field Shot

Center Field Shot

The Mortal Presidency

The Mortal Presidency

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

America, Past and Present

America, Past and Present

Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball

Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

The Corporate State and the Broker State

The Corporate State and the Broker State

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

Much More Than a Game

Much More Than a Game

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

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