Ford Frick
Ford Frick
Baseball's Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game
Bohmer, Dave
University of Nebraska Press
04/2026
400
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Inglês
9781496243492
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List of Illustrations
Preface: A Tool of the Owners?
1. Before Reaching the Majors
2. A Depressing, Challenging Start
3. Staying Alive
4. Change Is Going to Come
5. Second Time's a Charm
6. Nationalizing the Game
7. Not a Minor Problem
8. The Hardball Politics of Expansion
9. A Popular '60s Draft
10. Preserving the "Exemption"
11. Changes Good, Bad, and Ugly
12. Creating and Decking the Hall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface: A Tool of the Owners?
1. Before Reaching the Majors
2. A Depressing, Challenging Start
3. Staying Alive
4. Change Is Going to Come
5. Second Time's a Charm
6. Nationalizing the Game
7. Not a Minor Problem
8. The Hardball Politics of Expansion
9. A Popular '60s Draft
10. Preserving the "Exemption"
11. Changes Good, Bad, and Ugly
12. Creating and Decking the Hall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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baseball history; baseball book; baseball commissioner; Major League Baseball; National League president; baseball executive; Baseball Hall of Fame; Great Depression; baseball biography; baseball business; World War II; racial integration; team relocation; expansion; player draft; baseball front office; baseball administration; mid twentieth century baseball history; sports and politics; Noble County, Indiana; Ft. Wayne, Indiana; American baseball history; American sports history; sports history; sports
List of Illustrations
Preface: A Tool of the Owners?
1. Before Reaching the Majors
2. A Depressing, Challenging Start
3. Staying Alive
4. Change Is Going to Come
5. Second Time's a Charm
6. Nationalizing the Game
7. Not a Minor Problem
8. The Hardball Politics of Expansion
9. A Popular '60s Draft
10. Preserving the "Exemption"
11. Changes Good, Bad, and Ugly
12. Creating and Decking the Hall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface: A Tool of the Owners?
1. Before Reaching the Majors
2. A Depressing, Challenging Start
3. Staying Alive
4. Change Is Going to Come
5. Second Time's a Charm
6. Nationalizing the Game
7. Not a Minor Problem
8. The Hardball Politics of Expansion
9. A Popular '60s Draft
10. Preserving the "Exemption"
11. Changes Good, Bad, and Ugly
12. Creating and Decking the Hall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
baseball history; baseball book; baseball commissioner; Major League Baseball; National League president; baseball executive; Baseball Hall of Fame; Great Depression; baseball biography; baseball business; World War II; racial integration; team relocation; expansion; player draft; baseball front office; baseball administration; mid twentieth century baseball history; sports and politics; Noble County, Indiana; Ft. Wayne, Indiana; American baseball history; American sports history; sports history; sports