Baseball's Power Shift
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other industries, and the public was largely in the dark about labor practices in baseball. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, thei…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-8804-1
- EAN: 9780803288041
- Produktnummer: 35566320
- Verlag: Nebraska
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 371 KB
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