Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920

(Book #1 in the Players, Owners, and American Baseball Series)

by Robert F. Burk and Robert Fredrick Burk

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America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work force: its ethnocultural makeup, its economic position, and its battles for a place at the table in baseball's decision-making structure.
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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807821225

ISBN13:9780807821220

Release Date:March 1994

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:302 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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20th Century Baseball Business Business & Investing Economics Education & Reference History Industries & Professions Miscellaneous Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920

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