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Author:

Surdam, David G. (David George)

Title:

The postwar Yankees : baseball's golden age revisited / David G. Surdam.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

ix, 425 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

New York Yankees (Baseball team)--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : what golden age? -- Those Damn Yankees : dominance and submission in the American League -- Player movement and building the Yankees : leaving soon from a (small) city near you -- The game on the ledger : doldrums amid prosperity -- Changing demographics, suburbia, and leisure patterns : why did baseball attendance fall? -- Television and baseball : the new technology, friend or foe? -- Where is Robin Hood when you need him? : revenue sharing in the American League -- Isn't anybody going to help that game? : baseball attempts to rejuvenate its popularity -- The major league cartel : keeping out the interlopers -- The sixteen-headed hydra : the cartel faces the enmity within -- The Yankees' dynasty : did success spoil the team and its fans? -- Epilogue : what if the golden age ended and nobody cared?

ISBN:

0803217897 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803217898 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)221147845

LCCN:

2008012923

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)