The age of Ruth and Landis : the economics of baseball during the roaring twenties /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Machine generated contents note: List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Baseball's Interminable Wars 2. The Rise of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 3. Baseball's Longstanding Gambling Problem 4. The Financial Side of the Game 5. Getting Fans to the Ballpark 6. Trying to Make the Game More Popular 7. Not a Perfect Game 8. The Stars Are Realigned 9. Competitive Balance and Its Discontents 10. Owners versus Players 11. Highly Paid but Exploited Players 12. Hang On, the Minor Leagues' Bumpy Ride 13. Baseball and Ethnic Diversity 14. Hilldale and the Negro Leagues in the 1920s Epilogue: The Roaring Twenties and Major League Baseball Appendix 1: New York Yankees Financial Records Appendix 2: Salary Data Sources Notes Bibliography Index. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781496205711 1496205715 9781496205735 1496205731 |