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Author: Robert F Burk
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.739kg
ISBN: 9780252038754
ISBN 10: 0252038754
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 26 January 2015
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General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The first comprehensive biography of Miller, the former steelworkers union official who transformed the toothless Players Association into what may be the nation's most powerful private-sector union. --Wall Street Journal This sound biography is required reading for those interested in sports and in 20th-century history and labor. --Choice A must-read for anyone interested in how MLB salaries went from an average of $11,000 in 1966 to $3,386,212 in 2013. -Library Journal
Burk writes gracefully and insightfully, chronicling the life of one of baseball's most significant figures. He succeeds admirably in illuminating the evolution of Marvin Miller's intellect as well as his soul, in placing Miller's life in its historical context and in explaining how this frail man from Brooklyn with a bum arm was able to reshape the landscape of our national pastime. --Andrew Zimbalist, author of In the Best Interests of Baseball? Governing Our National Pastime
The first comprehensive biography of Miller, the former steelworkers union official who transformed the toothless Players Association into what may be the nation's most powerful private-sector union. --Wall Street Journal Whether he ever gets into the Hall of Fame, Marvin Miller revolutionized the business of sport. Along with Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Babe Ruth, Miller belongs among the handful of true baseball immortals. No one transformed the national pastime more significantly. Robert F. Burk provides a book worthy of its subject. --Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature A must-read for anyone interested in how MLB salaries went from an average of $11,000 in 1966 to $3,386,212 in 2013. -Library Journal A welcomed contribution that serves as required reading for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of baseball, economics, or labor history in the 1960s through 1980s. --Journal of Sport History This sound biography is required reading for those interested in sports and in 20th-century history and labor. --Choice Burk writes gracefully and insightfully, chronicling the life of one of baseball's most significant figures. He succeeds admirably in illuminating the evolution of Marvin Miller's intellect as well as his soul, in placing Miller's life in its historical context and in explaining how this frail man from Brooklyn with a bum arm was able to reshape the landscape of our national pastime. --Andrew Zimbalist, author of In the Best Interests of Baseball? Governing Our National Pastime
Author Information
Robert F. Burk is an emeritus professor of history at Muskingum University and the author of Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920 and Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921.
