University Press of Kentucky, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1999. University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0813120411 9780813120416 [US]

University Press Of Kentucky, Date: 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine(some foxing to the edges of the text block). Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xii + 495 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First printing. The six year period following the end of World War II was a pivotal one in the hsitory of major league baseball. Fans at home and soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with the game that was far and away the most popular, the NBA in its infancy and the NFL decades from its rise to dominence. Outstanding players like Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, and Warren Spahn returned to the playing field. The most important action of the period, however, was the breaking of the color barrier with the entrance of Jackie Robinson in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, soon followed by men like Larry Doby, Don Newcombe and others. 1999. University Press Of Kentucky ISBN 0813120411 9780813120416 [US]

ISBN10: 0813120411, ISBN13: 9780813120416, [publisher: University Press Of Kentucky] Hardcover First Edition Fine(some foxing to the edges of the text block). Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xii + 495 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First printing. The six year period following the end of World War II was a pivotal one in the hsitory of major league baseball. Fans at home and soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with the game that was far and away the most popular, the NBA in its infancy and the NFL decades from its rise to dominence. Outstanding players like Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, and Warren Spahn returned to the playing field. The most important action of the period, however, was the breaking of the color barrier with the entrance of Jackie Robinson in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, soon followed by men like Larry Doby, Don Newcombe and others.
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ISBN10: 0813120411, ISBN13: 9780813120416, [publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement.Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform ...
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