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| Author | : William E. Akin |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2015-08-17 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0786497661 |
The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with the most alumni to advance to the majors. This thorough history chronicles the MAL through three distinct phases from its 1925 inaugural season to its dissolution in 1952. During the first several seasons, most clubs hung one step from financial disaster despite support from local communities. Then the league flourished during the Great Depression as president Elmer Daily magically found investors and night baseball boosted working class attendance. Now enjoying a modicum of financial stability and an infusion of young talent, the clubs became talent farms for major league teams. Both the league and its cities went into decline as the country underwent seismic cultural and economic shifts following World War II.
| Author | : Charlie Bevis |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2021-05-19 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 147664232X |
Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.
| Author | : Lloyd Johnson |
| Publisher | : Baseball America |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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| Total Pages | : 944 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Reference |
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This is the most comprehensive bibliography of baseball literature available, updating and expanding "Anton Grobani's Guide to the Literature of Baseball" (1975). The 21,000 citations are arranged by subject classifications. There are sections on the World Series, baseball cards, business aspects, the minor leagues, each of the teams, and a biographical section covering those connected with the game. Annotations are provided for many entries. There is an author index, title index, and information on obtaining difficult to locate material, including addresses. Based on research at the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, N.Y., this work by a professional bibliographer will be the cornerstone of baseball research for the next decade.
| Author | : Myron J. Smith |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Reference |
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"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.
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| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1958 |
| Genre | : College administrators |
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| Total Pages | : 1048 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : Baseball |
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| Author | : Bruce Chadwick |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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Major League play has attracted the glitz and the glamour, but until the days of television most Americans came to know the national pastime through the Minor League teams. In this enjoyable history, evocative photos and a lively text trace the Minors from their origins to the revival they are enjoying today. Hundreds of photographs provide more than a century's worth of nostalgia. Ardent fans and casual readers alike will find the next to be an endless source of delightful facts and trivia: Former New York Governor Moro Cuomo once played for Pittsburgh's farm team in New Brunswick, Gerorgia; Liz Taylor was once a cheerleader for the Hollywood Stars; and the outfield in the Beckley, West Virginia, park ran right to the edge of a 400-foot cliff, discouraging even the most intrepid fielder from diving for a home-run fly! This is truly a one-of-a-kind history that will delight baseball fans, collectors and student of America alike.
| Author | : Frank Grant Menke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1953 |
| Genre | : Sports |
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| Author | : Frank Grant Menke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1128 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : Sports |
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