One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime

by John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro, John Florio

Book Overview

One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803286902
• ISBN13: 9780803286900
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"