Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972
Spanning the era from the close of World War II to the 1972 U.S.  Supreme Court ruling rejecting Curt Flood's bid for free agency,  this book presents a documentary examination of major league  baseball. The materials include official pronouncements by  baseball's own high court, sharp accounts of ball games and  pennant races, and references to some of the finest histories of  the sport. Many of the selections make perfect sense: featured  are the infamous 1945 report of the major league steering  committee on the "race question," the Supreme Court decision  eight years later sustaining baseball's antitrust exemption,  Walter O'Malley's purchase of a Los Angeles minor league team  and ballpark, the acceptance of independent arbitration, and the  Hall of Fame's belated establishment of a Negro Leagues  Committee. For academic and large libraries.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.