American Baseball. Vol. 3
From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age
David Quentin Voigt
“One of the most in-depth, informative, and interesting books that I have read. Everything that Voigt touches upon is a point I can relate to because I was not only a player during the fifties, sixties, and seventies but a young boy having a dream in the forties. . . . Great reading, baseball fans!”
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New owners took charge in the expansion era, men described by the author as "individualistic, competitive, and mercenary—qualities sometimes gentled by altruism." Walter O'Malley of the Dodgers is presented as a representative expansionist, a "throwback to the robber barons," a glory-seeker intent on erasing Branch Rickey's fame, and yet a modern Barnum devoted to giving fans their money's worth. A showdown between owners of this stripe and the players' hard-bargaining Marvin Miller seemed a no-win game for the fans.
Yet, as America enters the 1980s, this book reports, its "vast enthusiasm for major league baseball remains awesome." Despite the modern world's threats to the stability of the National Pastime, the diamond's mythic power justifies cautious optimism.
“One of the most in-depth, informative, and interesting books that I have read. Everything that Voigt touches upon is a point I can relate to because I was not only a player during the fifties, sixties, and seventies but a young boy having a dream in the forties. . . . Great reading, baseball fans!”
David Quentin Voigt has written five books on baseball history, plus America's Leisure Revolution on the sociology of leisure and sport. After earning an M.A. in American History at Columbia and a Ph.D. in Social Science at Syracuse, Dr. Voigt returned to his hometown of Reading, PA, as Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Albright College.
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