When the game changed
Subtitle: an oral history of baseball's true golden age, 1969-1979
By: George Castle
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781599219332
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Taking the measure of a decade; title: Baseball, the lazarus sport; title: Return of Leo the Lip, the Splendid Splinter, and Joltin' Joe; title: The greatest collection of talent ever?; title: Batsmen in business again; title: Duels to a standstill, complete games, and rubber arms; title: Immortalized by a ligament; title: Everyday men, splitters, and setting it up; title: Centerpieces; title: Would-be dynasties; title: Collapses, should-have-beens, and wannabes; title: Throwing off the shackles; title: Baseball finally in living color; title: Characters; title: Bread and circuses ; hot dogs, hair, and high jinks; title: 1979 and beyond.