Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951
With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8131-2041-6
- EAN: 9780813120416
- Produktnummer: 9037884
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 513 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.9 cm 1'052 g
- Gewicht: 1052
Über den Autor
William Marshall is director of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Kentucky Libraries.
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