American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age

by David Quentin Voigt

Book Overview

The National Pastime has made big news and big money since its Silver Age (1900-1920), but what old-timer would have dreamed of TV networks bidding tens of millions for camera time, of baseballers getting paid like movie stars, or of all concerned--players, managers, owners, even umpires--having their lives exposed in intimate detail by keyhole journalists? So far the great American game has survived media hype, as this book shows, with the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003324
• ISBN13: 9780271003320
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"