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9780803255234 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $29.95
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9780803234970 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $34.95
Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the economic upheavals of the Depression none of the sixteen Major League Baseball teams folded or moved. In this economistâs look at the sport as a business between 1929 and 1941, David George Surdam argues that although it was a very tough decade for baseball, the downturn didnât happen immediately. The 1930 season, after the stock market crash, had record attendance. But by 1931 attendance began to fall rapidly, plummeting 40 percent by 1933. To adjust, teams reduced expenses by cutting coaches and hiring player-managers. While even the best players, such as Babe Ruth, were forced to take pay cuts, most players continued to earn the same pay in terms of purchasing power. Baseball remained a great way to make a living. Revenue sharing helped the teams in small markets but not necessarily at the expense of big-city teams. Off the field, owners devised innovative solutions to keep the game afloat, including the development of the Minor League farm system, night baseball, and the first radio broadcasts to diversify teamsâ income sources. Using research from primary documents, Surdam analyzes how the economic structure and operations side of Major League Baseball during the Depression took a beating but managed to endure, albeit changed by the societal forces of its time.
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9780803234826 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression.
Paperback:
9780803271791 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $30.00
Product Description: With its iconic stars and gleaming ballparks, baseball has been one of the most captivating forms of modern popular culture. In Expanding the Strike Zone, Daniel A. Gilbert examines the history and meaning of the sport's tumultuous changes since the mid-twentieth century, amid Major League Baseball's growing global influence...read more
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9781558499966 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: With its iconic stars and gleaming ballparks, baseball has been one of the most captivating forms of modern popular culture.
Paperback:
9781558499973 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $23.95
Paperback:
9780786468676 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 16, 2012, cover price $25.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9780307966957 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 6, 2011), cover price $19.99
Paperback:
9780786465156 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 15, 2011, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780393338393 | Rep mti edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 22, 2011), cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739317747 | Abridged edition (Random House, July 27, 2004), cover price $14.99
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9781439566206 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
9781417663040 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.
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