Bush League, Big City: The Brooklyn Cyclones, Staten Island Yankees, and the New York-Penn League
Author:   Michael Sokolow
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438492636


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 April 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Michael Sokolow
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438492636


ISBN 10:   1438492634
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Our Own Little Communities 2. Dictating Things from a Distance 3. What the Hell Do They Care? 4. New Stadiums Do Not Produce Economic Growth 5. Sane Businesspeople Become Misty-Eyed 6. We Are Committed to Nobody Except Watertown 7. It Will Be Great for Staten Island 8. We Could Not Stay in St. Catharines 9. Coney Island Is Hot Right Now 10. An Insult to the People of Brooklyn 11. Waiting for Exactly This: The Inaugural Season 12. Not Even a Smidgen of Sentiment Afterword Notes Index

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"""Bush League, Big City is a compelling and important read. Examining the contraction and betrayals that beset the venerable New York-Penn League, Michael Sokolow follows the money from small-town Oneonta, New York, to the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. Based on extensive research, Bush League, Big City melds observant analysis with masterful storytelling. As Sokolow broaches, the shortsighted greed of Major League Baseball may well come back to haunt the game and its moguls."" — William Simons, Professor Emeritus, History Department, SUNY Oneonta and editor, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture"


Bush League, Big City is a compelling and important read. Examining the contraction and betrayals that beset the venerable New York-Penn League, Michael Sokolow follows the money from small-town Oneonta, New York, to the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. Based on extensive research, Bush League, Big City melds observant analysis with masterful storytelling. As Sokolow broaches, the shortsighted greed of Major League Baseball may well come back to haunt the game and its moguls. - William Simons, Professor Emeritus, History Department, SUNY Oneonta and editor, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture


Author Information

Michael Sokolow is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. He is the author of Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail.

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