Let there be light
Subtitle: a history of night baseball 1880-2008
By: Robert B. Payne ; contributor: Tom Pierett
Contributors: Pierett, Tom
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781449053598
Subjects: Electric lighting; Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio); Baseball; History
Other titles: History of night baseball 1880-2008
Notes: Copy one is inscribed by the author.

"The book ... will show the evolutionary process that took 50 years (1880 to 1930) before minor league baseball adopted the idea of playing baseball at night.  After breaking into the minors, it only took five years before the Majors grudgingly accepted the idea proposed by Leland 'Larry' MacPhail and Powel Crosley to light up Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The book will have 70 photographs, 17 documents, diagrams, charts, and letters and over 90 pages of history, stories, and events.  The end result is a history of modern day lighted baseball fields. ... The first World Series night game was played in 1971.  But, by 1985, every World Series game is played at night."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).

BL-237.2010.1 ; BL-237.2010.2
Table of contents: title: Light comes to the big leagues; title: In the beginning, 1880 to 1930; title: Lighting Crosley, lights in a suitcase; title: The process; title: Engineers and prophets; title: Reviews and revenues; title: The first Major League Baseball, night game; title: "and the lights were very good"; title: Powel Crosley, entrepreneur; title: Edison and Tesla, the giants of light and power; title: Thirteen ball fields, thirteen years; title: Reflections on Crosley Field, the last night game; title: Lights come to Wrigley; title: Engineers, owners, and players, photos; title: Modern day ballparks; title: The bigger picture.