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Author:   David George Surdam
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780803271784

ISBN 10:   0803271786
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: What Golden Age? 1. Those Damn Yankees: Dominance and Submission in the American League 2. Player Movement and Building the Yankees: Leaving Soon from a (Small) City near You 3. The Game on the Ledger: Doldrums amid Prosperity 4. Changing Demographics, Suburbia, and Leisure Patterns: Why Did Baseball Attendance Fall? 5. Television and Baseball: The New Technology, Friend or Foe? 6. Where Is Robin Hood When You Need Him? Revenue Sharing in the American League 7. Isn't Anybody Going to Help That Game? Baseball Attempts to Rejuvenate Its Popularity 8. The Major League Cartel: Keeping Out the Interlopers 9. The Sixteen-Headed Hydra: The Cartel Faces the Enmity Within 10. The Yankees' Dynasty: Did Success Spoil the Team and Its Fans? Epilogue: What If the Golden Age Ended and Nobody Cared? Appendix of Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited is a good starting point for anyone interested in the business of baseball. -John Paul Hill, NINE -- John Paul Hill NINE

The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited is a good starting point for anyone interested in the business of baseball. --John Paul Hill, NINE --John Paul Hill NINE

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David G. Surdam is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Northern Iowa. His work on the economics of sport and the economics of the Civil War has appeared in the Journal of Sports Economics, Naval War College Review, and the Journal of Economic History, among other publications. He also is the author of Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War.

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