One nation under baseball
Subtitle: How the 1960s collided with the national pastime
By: John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro ; foreword by Bob Costas
Contributors: Shapiro, Ouisie, author
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780803286900
Subjects: Baseball players; Baseball; African American baseball players; History; Biography; Discrimination in sports
Description: "One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and their free-spirited fans, and the lawsuit brought against team owners by Curt Flood. One Nation Under Baseball brings to life the seminal figures of the era--including Bob Gibson, Marvin Miller, Tom Seaver, and Dick Young--richly portraying their roles during a decade of flux and uncertainty"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221).