Overview
Baseball's early labor wars America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this labor history of baseball from its beginning to 1920, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying world force and recounts its battles for a place in baseballs decision-making structure. Tracing the development of franchise competition, rival leagues, and trade wars - and the boom-and-bust cycles, franchise bankruptcies, and Jeague mergers they triggered in turn - he explores the off-field acrimony that characterized the sport's labor-management relations.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert F. Burk
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.456kg
ISBN: 9780807849613
ISBN 10: 0807849618
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 31 March 2001
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The book will appeal to both the serious student of business history and the layman with merely an interest in the game itself. ( Business History ) A fascinating story, well told. ( Choice ) Burk proves that when it comes to baseball's money issues, the more things change--the more they stay the same. ( USA Today Baseball Weekly ) Never Just a Game will be useful for many economic, business, and labor historians, even those who are not sports fans. ( Journal of Economic History ) A detailed study of baseball's labor-management relations from the first all-professional team, the undefeated 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, to the 1919 Black Sox, an era when the owners, not the players were in total command. (Jerome Holtzman, Chicago Tribune )
Burk proves that when it comes to baseball's money issues, the more things change--the more they stay the same. ( USA Today Baseball Weekly ) The book will appeal to both the serious student of business history and the layman with merely an interest in the game itself. ( Business History ) A detailed study of baseball's labor-management relations from the first all-professional team, the undefeated 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, to the 1919 Black Sox, an era when the owners, not the players were in total command. (Jerome Holtzman, Chicago Tribune ) A fascinating story, well told. ( Choice ) Never Just a Game will be useful for many economic, business, and labor historians, even those who are not sports fans. ( Journal of Economic History )
A detailed study of baseball's labor-management relations from the first all-professional team, the undefeated 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, to the 1919 Black Sox, an era when the owners, not the players were in total command. (Jerome Holtzman, Chicago Tribune )
Author Information
Winner of the 1994 Macmillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball Research A 1995 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Robert F. Burk is professor and chair of the history department at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio.
