Reporting Baseball's Sensational Season Of 1890
Subtitle: The Brotherhood War and the Rise of Modern Sports Journalism
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780786473687
Subjects: Baseball; Sports journalism; Mass media and sports
Description: "When the members of the first baseball players' union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism moved out of the curiosity shop of mainstream journalism and into the newsroom"--