Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009291713/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract ""This book opens with a discussion of the challenges that faced baseball's movers and shakers when they gathered in Bal Harbour, Florida, for the annual winter meetings on December 2, 1969. Their worst nightmares would be realized in the coming years. The many and often contradictory reasons the 1970s game evolved into a war of competing ideologies - escalating salaries, an acrimonious strike, Sesame Street-style team mascots, and the breaking of the time-honored tradition that all players, including the pitcher, must play on offense as well as defense - found many teams ill equipped to adapt."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Major league baseball in the Nineteen seventies".
• catalog contributor b13113098.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""This book opens with a discussion of the challenges that faced baseball's movers and shakers when they gathered in Bal Harbour, Florida, for the annual winter meetings on December 2, 1969. Their worst nightmares would be realized in the coming years.".
• catalog description "Curt Flood, the man who fought the law -- From the literary corner, ball four -- The coming of the sterile ashtrays -- The man who gave his body to baseball -- The angry men -- The end of the age of innocence -- The pride of Westchester High -- Charlie Finley's big happy family -- On the origins of the DH rule -- Bobby Bonds and the ghost of baseball future -- Henry Aaron, race, and the record -- The ten-cent beet fiasco -- The end of the fireballer epoch -- Steve Carlton's sounds of silence -- Messersmith and McNally: the guys who fought the law and won -- The potential immortality of Marvin Miller -- The big red machine and the end of an era -- Pete Rose in full bloom -- The rotation revolution -- Consistency and wit in the shadows -- The evolution of the bullpen -- The aborted sale of Vida Blue -- A paradox in action -- The commissioner -- The bird -- George Steinbrenner's new economics -- Rod Carew and Ted Williams-style greatness -- Contending on the cheap -- Bill Veeck's south-side wreck -- Vern Rapp and management 101 -- Steve Garvey and the essence of fame -- Being without a chair when the music stops -- The stolen base revival -- Dave Kingman: master of the homer and the big breeze -- Power to the umpires -- The Roman umpire -- Willie Stargell and the evolution of the African American player.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-392) and index.".
• catalog description "The many and often contradictory reasons the 1970s game evolved into a war of competing ideologies - escalating salaries, an acrimonious strike, Sesame Street-style team mascots, and the breaking of the time-honored tradition that all players, including the pitcher, must play on offense as well as defense - found many teams ill equipped to adapt."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "viii, 403 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0786415924 (softcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "796.357/64 22".
• catalog subject "Baseball United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "GV863.A1 P74 2004".
• catalog subject "Major League Baseball (Organization) History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Curt Flood, the man who fought the law -- From the literary corner, ball four -- The coming of the sterile ashtrays -- The man who gave his body to baseball -- The angry men -- The end of the age of innocence -- The pride of Westchester High -- Charlie Finley's big happy family -- On the origins of the DH rule -- Bobby Bonds and the ghost of baseball future -- Henry Aaron, race, and the record -- The ten-cent beet fiasco -- The end of the fireballer epoch -- Steve Carlton's sounds of silence -- Messersmith and McNally: the guys who fought the law and won -- The potential immortality of Marvin Miller -- The big red machine and the end of an era -- Pete Rose in full bloom -- The rotation revolution -- Consistency and wit in the shadows -- The evolution of the bullpen -- The aborted sale of Vida Blue -- A paradox in action -- The commissioner -- The bird -- George Steinbrenner's new economics -- Rod Carew and Ted Williams-style greatness -- Contending on the cheap -- Bill Veeck's south-side wreck -- Vern Rapp and management 101 -- Steve Garvey and the essence of fame -- Being without a chair when the music stops -- The stolen base revival -- Dave Kingman: master of the homer and the big breeze -- Power to the umpires -- The Roman umpire -- Willie Stargell and the evolution of the African American player.".
• catalog title "Major league baseball in the 1970s : a modern game emerges / Joseph G. Preston.".
• catalog title "Major league baseball in the Nineteen seventies".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".