Late innings : a documentary history of baseball, 1945-1972 /

Third volume in Dean A. Sullivan's series on the history of baseball. Through 114 contemporary documents, Late innings examines everything from Jackie Robinson's ground-breaking assault on the color barrier to Roger Maris's run on the home run record to the first stirrings of labor-ma...

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Other Authors: Sullivan, Dean A., 1963-
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Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2002.
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505 0 0 |g Chapter 1.  |t Baseball in the Post-Landis Era --  |g Chapter 2.  |t Controversies over Antitrust, Airwaves --  |g Chapter 3.  |t Baseball Moves West --  |g Chapter 4.  |t Continental Divides --  |g Chapter 5.  |t Legislating Baseball --  |g Chapter 6.  |t Baseball Confronts Modernity --  |g Chapter 7.  |t The Era of Labor Unrest Begins --  |g Chapter 8.  |t Counting Numbers, Dollars, and Rights. 
505 0 |a Baseball in the Post-Landis Era -- Commissioner's Powers Diminished after Landis's Death (1945) -- Branch Rickey on Selection of Happy Chandler as Commissioner (1945) -- Rickey, O'Malley Purchase Half-Interest in Dodgers (1945) -- Report of the Mayor's Committee on Baseball (1945) -- Major League Baseball Addresses the "Race Question" (1946) -- Players, Owners Agree on Changes in Contracts, Game (1946) -- Minor Leagues Prepare for Future (1946) -- Reporter Alleges Strike Threat against Jackie Robinson (1947) -- "Pitch Spahn and Sain, Then Pray for Rain" (1948) -- Indians, Bearden Win Playoff Game to Claim American League Pennant (1948) -- Negro National League Disintegrates (1948) -- Chandler Reinstates Mexican League Jumpers (1949) -- Jackie Robinson v. Paul Robeson (1949) -- Yankees Win Pennant in Dramatic Fashion (1949) -- Controversies over Antitrust, Airwaves -- Organized Baseball, Government Quarrel over Broadcast Regulations (1949) -- The Effect of Television on Minor League Baseball Attendance (1951) -- Baseball Asked to Reinstate Joe Jackson (1951) -- Willie Mays Joins the New York Giants (1951) -- Celler Committee Begins Investigation of Antitrust Exemption (1951) -- Robinson's Heroics Put Dodgers in Playoff (1951) -- Bobby Thomson Home Run Clinches Miracle Pennant for Giants (1951) -- The Responsibilities of a Team Statistician (1952) -- Minor Leaguer Fans Twenty-Seven in Nine-Inning Game (1952) -- Minor League Head Forbids Signing of Female Players (1952) -- New Bonus Rule Enacted (1952) -- O'Malley Promotes Pay Television (1953) -- Boston Braves Move to Milwaukee (1953) -- Community Organization Pressures Yankees to Integrate (1953) -- Umpires Accused of Showing Off on Television (1953) -- Mantle Hits Tape-Measure Home Run in Washington (1953) -- Robinson's Interracial Barnstorming Team Banned by Bull Connor (1953) --Supreme Court Upholds Baseball's Antitrust Exemption (1953) -- Baseball Moves West -- Major League Owners Consider Ending Player Pension Plan (1953) -- Minor League President Warns of Slow Games (1954) -- Major League Baseball Players' Association Formed (1954) -- Mays, Rhodes Lead Giants to Victory in Series Opener (1954) -- Frick Updates Owners on Recent Baseball Litigation (1955) -- Ted Williams Fined $5,000 for Spitting (1956) -- Don Larsen Pitches Perfect World Series Game (1956) -- Review of The Fireside Book of Baseball (1956) -- Don Newcombe Wins the First Cy Young Award (1956) -- DeWitt Named Administrator of "Save the Minors" Fund (1956) -- O'Malley Buys Los Angeles Minor League Team and Ballpark (1957) -- Supreme Court Decision Casts Doubt on Baseball Antitrust Exemption (1957) -- Montgomery, Alabama, Institutes Racial Segregation in Sport (1957) -- Herb Score Seriously Injured by Line Drive (1957) -- Frick Overturns All-Star Game Vote (1957) -- Feller Defuses Controversy over Congressional Testimony (1957) -- Giants Agree to Move to San Francisco (1957) -- Burdette, Braves Interrupt "Normalcy" by Beating Yankees in World Series (1957) -- Continental Divides -- Mayor's Baseball Committee of the City of New York Established (1957) -- Richard Nixon Advocates True "World" Series (1958) -- Roy Campanella Paralyzed in Car Accident (1958) -- L.A. Voters Narrowly Approve Stadium in Chavez Ravine (1958) -- Frick on the State of Baseball (1958) -- MLBPA Report on Salaries (1958) -- Dixie Series Threatened by Birmingham Racial Laws (1958) -- Second All-Star Game Approved (1959) -- Haddix Pitches Twelve Perfect Innings and Loses (1959) -- Formation of Continental League Announced (1959) -- Negro American League Nearing the End (1959) -- Los Angeles Wins Playoff, Goes to Series (1959) -- Review of Baseball: The Early Years (1960) -- Mazeroski Home Run Lifts Pirates to Stunning Series Win over Yankees (1960) -- Legislating Baseball -- NL Upholds Promise, Awards Franchises to Two CL Teams; AL Reneges (1960) -- The Major League Perspective on Congressional Investigations (1961) -- Frick Places "Distinctive Mark" on 162-Game Home Run Record (1961) -- Satchel Paige MVP in Last East-West Negro All-Star Game (1961) -- Roger Maris Established Record with Sixty-First Home Run (1961) -- Major Leagues Vote Down Return of Spitball (1961) -- Giants Rally in Ninth to Beat Dodgers in Playoff (Again) (1962) -- American Association Latest Minor League to Be Dismantled (1962) -- Marichal Bests Spahn in Sixteen-Inning Pitching Duel (1963) --Preview of TV Special "A Man Named Mays" (1963) -- NL Wins Only Latin All-Star Game (1963) -- Charlie Finley Suggests Playing Night Games during World Series 1963) -- Jim Bunning Throws First NL Perfect Game of Century (1964) -- Dodgers to Experiment with Pay Television (1964) -- "Phillies 6 1/2 Up With 12 to Play" (1964) -- Draft Approved, Commissioners' Powers Restored at Winter Meetings (1964) -- Baseball Confronts Modernity -- Design Flaws in Houston Astrodome Revealed (1965) -- Marichal Attacks Dodgers' Roseboro with Bat during Game (1965) -- Emmett Ashford Becomes First Black Major League Umpire (1965) -- William "Spike" Eckert Elected as New Commissioner (1965) -- MLBPA Executive Director Position Approved by Majors (1966) -- Baseball Press Release Costs Majors in Wisconsin Antitrust Suit (1966) -- "Chipmunks": New Breed of Sportswriter Emerges (1966) -- Koufax, Drysdale Agree to End Joint Holdout (1966) -- Review of The Glory of Their Times (1966) -- Red Barber Fired by Yankees (1966) -- Sandy Koufax Retires at Age Thirty (1966) -- Red Sox Complete Miracle Season, Win AL Pennant (1967) -- MLBPA, Owners Sign First Basic Agreement (1968) -- The Era of Labor Unrest Begins -- Major Leagues Agree on Divisional Play, Playoffs (1968) -- McLain Wins Thirty-First Game while Allowing Mantle's 535th Home Run (1968) -- Two AL Umpires Fired after Planning Union (1968) -- Changes in Rules, Pitcher's Mound Approved at Winter Meetings (1968) -- Teams to Experiment with "Wild-Card" Hitter in Spring Training (1969) -- Bowie Kuhn, NL Lawyer, Elected as Interim Commissioner (1969) -- Baseball Encyclopedia Research Adds 715th Home Run to Ruth's Total (1969) -- Curt Flood Threatens to Retire after Being Traded (1969) -- New York Mets Stun Baseball, Win World Series (1969) -- National Labor Relations Board Rules Baseball Subject to Its Jurisdiction (1969) -- Flood to File Antitrust Suit against Baseball (1969) -- Counting Numbers, Dollars, and Rights -- "Baseball Seminar": The First Fantasy Baseball Game? (1970) -- Seymour Siwoff and the Statistics Revolution (1970) -- Owners Grant Players Independent Arbitration in New Basic Agreement (1970) -- Reaction to Jim Bouton's Ball Four (1970) -- Rose Crushed Fosse to Win All-Star Game for NL (1970) -- Umpires Strike during League Championship Series (1970) -- Hall of Fame Establishes Negro Leagues Committee (1971) -- Washington Senators Forfeit Franchise's Final Game (1971) -- Cardinals' Owner Lectures Players on Virtues of Proposed Pension Plan (1972) -- Comment on the Supreme Court Ruling against Curt Flood (1972). 
520 |a Third volume in Dean A. Sullivan's series on the history of baseball. Through 114 contemporary documents, Late innings examines everything from Jackie Robinson's ground-breaking assault on the color barrier to Roger Maris's run on the home run record to the first stirrings of labor-management unrest in the 1970s. Late innings also looks at exciting on-field activities, the antitrust controversy, issues of expansion, the effect of television on the game, and several other points of interest swirling around baseball in postwar America. 
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