Baseball Under the Lights: The Rise of the Night Game

by Charlie Bevis

Book Overview

Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476680159
• ISBN13: 9781476680156
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"