American Baseball: From the Commissioners to Continental Expansion

by David Quentin Voigt

Book Overview

Organized baseball from the establishment of the National Commission in 1903 to the period of national expansion in the 1950s and 1960s--buffeted by the winds of two world wars and a Great Depression--is chronicled here in colorful detail.

The glories of the Silver Age--Ty Cobb's record-setting, Ed Walsh's pitching innovations, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance fielding orchestration--might have been eclipsed by World War I and the 1919 "Black Sox"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003332
• ISBN13: 9780271003337
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"