The reshaping of America's game : Major League Baseball after the players' strike
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Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
Lanham, Maryland :
[2021]
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About
"The past 25 years have been the most dynamic in the history of Major League Baseball, from the league's recovery after the players' strike to the growth of analytics and the rise of new World Series contenders. In The Reshaping of America's Game: Major League Baseball after the Players' Strike, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte reflects on the factors and challenges that have changed major league baseball since the 1994-1995 players' strike. He examines the consolidation of power in the Commissioner's Office, the influx of Latin and Asian players, the boom in new stadiums, the influence of analytics in reshaping how rosters are constructed, the relationship between managers and the front office, and the rise of the power-game between pitchers and batters that has led to unprecedented strikeout and home run totals. While Major League Baseball continues to develop and grow, the league has had to grapple with repeated steroids scandals, the struggle of small-market teams to remain competitive, and the "forever" unfinished business between players and owners over free agency and fair compensation. The Reshaping of America's Game provides a detailed and intriguing review of the many issues affecting the national pastime during the liveliest years in MLB history. The Reshaping of America's Game, together with Soderholm-Difatte's America's Game, Tumultuous Times in America's Game, and America's Game in the Wild-Card Era, form the author's complete, definitive history of Major League Baseball." --
"The Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years following the players' strike, including cheating scandals, steroids, analytics, and changing demographics." --
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Details
- ISBN: 9781538145951
- ISBN: 1538145952
- Physical Description: xviii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- Introduction: Prelude to baseball's great reckoning -- Part I: Baseball back in business -- Baseball in recovery -- Superpowers: How the Braves and Yankees got that way -- "Chicks dig the long ball" -- Selig's growth legacy -- Baseball's Asian-Pacific tide -- Baseball's finest hours -- Part II: Baseball's battles in the new century -- Small markets on the brink -- From the A's to the Rays and beyond: baseball's analytics revolution -- Baseball's diversity scorecard -- The Latin tsunami and the second Cuban wave -- The dark (steroids) side of recovery -- Part III: New thinking in the old ball game -- The owners' take: show me the money -- Where losing was a winning proposition -- Baseball's power dynamic: muscling up and mowing them down -- Strategizing pitching -- Not the same free agency, or back to the future -- Baseball's year of discontent: from Astros cheatskates to the Coronavirus pandemic -- Quotes and notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
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