Baseball's pivotal era, 1945-1951 / William Marshall.

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Marshall, William

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813158792
0813158796
1322596654
9781322596655
0813120411
9780813120416

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951.DDC classification:

796.3570973 23

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GV863 .A1 M353 2015

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1945; 1. Winds of Change; 2. ""No One Is Qualified""; 3. 1945: Season of Hope; The National League Pennant Race; The American League Pennant Race; The 1945 World Series; 1946; 4. The Mexican Baseball Revolution; 5. Murphy Money and More; 6. 1946: Season of Tumult; The National League Pennant Race; The American League Pennant Race; The 1946 World Series; 1947; 7. Durocher Finishes Last; 8. Jackie Robinson's America; 9. 1947: Season of Fury; The American League Pennant Race; The National League Pennant Race.

The 1947 World Series1948; 10. Miracle on Lake Erie; 11. Ownership Has Its Privileges; 12. 1948: Indian Summer; The National League Pennant Race; The American League Pennant Race; The 1948 World Series; 1949; 13. Gardella's Folly; 14. A Stepchild in Peril, The Minors; 15. 1949: Pinstripes Prevail; The American League Pennant Race; The National League Pennant Race; The 1949 World Series; 1950; 16. ""Who Were Those Guys?""; 17. The Great Triumvirate and Other Stars; 18. 1950: Year of the Whiz Kids; The American League Pennant Race; The National League Pennant Race; The 1950 World Series; 1951.

19. Chandler's Waterloo20. 1951: ""The Shot Heard 'Round the World""; The American League Pennant Race; The National League Pennant Race; The 1951 World Series; 21. Baseball Then and Now; Notes; Sources; Index.

Summary: With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, f.

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With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, f.

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