Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951

"With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insuranc

Author: William Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 02/25/1999
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.42w x 1.55d
ISBN: 9780813120416

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/1999 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 02/08/1999 pg. 202
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1999 pg. 358
New York Times 05/30/1999 pg. 17

About the Author

William Marshall is director of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Kentucky Libraries.

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