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A Whole New Game: Off the Field Changes in Baseball, 1946-1960
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A Whole New Game: Off the Field Changes in Baseball, 1946-1960 Paperback - 1999

by John P. Rossi


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Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the game's first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954, attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once loyal fans turned to other activities, started going to see more football, and began watching television. Also, the sport had to wrestle with racial integration, franchise shifts and unionization while trying to keep a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the public. This work chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight, survived postwar challenges. Some of the solutions came about intelligently, some clumsily, but by 1960 baseball was a stronger, healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.

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  • Title A Whole New Game: Off the Field Changes in Baseball, 1946-1960
  • Author John P. Rossi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 263
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC
  • Date April 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780786406517 / 0786406518
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.3 x 0.56 in (23.06 x 16.00 x 1.42 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99021308
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

About the author

Philadelphia's John P. Rossi, professor of history, LaSalle University, has written on baseball history for The International Journal of the History of Sport and The Phillies Report and periodically teaches a course on the relationship between baseball and American history. He is also the author of The 1964 Phillies: Off the Field Changes in Baseball, 1946-1960 (2005) and The National Game: Baseball and American Culture (2000).
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