The Pastime in Turbulence

Summary:"The 1940s were years of change. Minor league free agents were introduced in 1940 by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and player after player left to join the war effort with men and boys both below and well above draft age completing the rosters; 1946 saw a first: two National League teams, the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, tied for first place, forcing a best two-out-of three series; 1947 brought Jackie Robinson to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers; and the American League saw its own tie for first in 1948 between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox, resolved in a one-game playoff."-OCLC

First sentence: The interviews in the following pages are with several major league baseball players who have little in common other than the fact that they all played ball in the 1940s.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

McFarland & Company

Editions

1

Pages

325

ISBN

9780786409754

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