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David Quentin Voigt The League That Failed (Hardback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- League That Failed
- Publication Name
- The League That Failed
- Title
- The League That Failed
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0810833093
- EAN
- 9780810833098
- ISBN
- 9780810833098
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Release Year
- 1998
- Release Date
- 06/10/1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Series
- American Sports History Series
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Topic
- Baseball / History
- Number of Pages
- 354 Pages
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The League That Failed cuts through the haze that surrounds 19th-century baseball history, and portrays a classic, colorful era when baseball was chaotic, struggled over by players, coaches, sportswriters, fans, and owners. It recounts the stormy atmosphere after the Inter-League Wars of 1890 and 1891, when the victorious National League made a bald-faced bid to monopolize major league baseball in the United States, succeeding for eight years with the self-styled "Big League," which dominated the game while simultaneously gaining infamous notoriety for such high-handed acts as unilaterally capping players' salaries, failing to protect umpires from physical abuse, and threatening city governments if ballpark attendance dipped. By the turn of the century, weakening financial returns and internecine squabbles allowed an interloping upstart, the American League, to gain a toehold, forcing the National League to abandon its fantasies of monopolizing American baseball. An agreement between the two leagues in 1903 ushered in a long era of prosperity and stability under the umbrella of a familiar dual major league system. Voigt explores the historical origins of baseball from stick-and-ball games, through the popular players, significant rules changes, and seedy business practices of the final years of the 19th century, years that were crucial to the formation of baseball as it is played today. The League That Failed scrutinizes the active promotion of a new, grandiose baseball atmosphere of the "Big League," that included improved stadiums and the increasing importance of until then unknown sports figures: the concessionaire and the sportswriter. The League That Failed convincingly insists that many of the vexing problems of contemporary baseball (falling attendance, embattled club owners, bitter player strikes, and tension between franchises over profitability) originate with the practices of the "Big League" years. Gloomy scenarios touted by many sportswriters today eerily resemble sentim
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0810833093
ISBN-13
9780810833098
eBay Product ID (ePID)
956139
Product Key Features
Book Title
League That Failed
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
354 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
10
Lc Classification Number
Gv875.N18v65 1998
Reviews
Voigt...reminds us of the common themes that have run through the history of the sport...written for knowledgeable baseball fans, this book would circulate best in libraries having comprehensive holdings on the subject., This is a valuable reference work...Voigt's grasp of the early history of professional baseball is clearly evident...a solid, useful contribution to the field, one that will be a welcome addition to public, university, and baseball historians' libraries alike., It undoubtedly is an important and valuable contribution to an understanding of a particularly crucial period of the sport's evolution., ...a superb book...it belongs in every serious baseball library, fans and public, spotlighting this era...Voigt's 1890s history lesson, The League That Failed , I heartily recommend reading. You will come away with a better understanding of the decade's impact in baseball's panorama., ...a superb book...it belongs in every serious baseball library, fans and public, spotlighting this era...Voigt's 1890s history lesson, The League That Failed, I heartily recommend reading. You will come away with a better understanding of the decade's impact in baseball's panorama.
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-053304
Dewey Decimal
796.3/57/0973/09034
Series
American Sports History Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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