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

by John P. Rossi

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786406518
• ISBN13: 9780786406517
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher