The Year Without a World Series

Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players' Strike
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4766-9247-0
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened, including the revered single-season home run record. The Montreal Expos and New York Yankees were delivering remarkable campaigns. In August, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig called a halt to the season amid the League's latest labor dispute. The shutdown led to early retirements, walkouts, splinter leagues, and eventually lockouts and strikes. Like all labor struggles, it was fundamentally about control--of salaries, of players' ability to decide their own fates, and of the game itself. This book chronicles MLB's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects, highlighting the roles of leaders like John Montgomery Ward and Robert Murphy and the Major League Baseball Players Association.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball

Über Autor(innen)

Professor emeritus of history and american studies from California State University, Chico, Robert C. Cottrell is the author of over twenty books. These include recent studies of the counterculture, 1968, American radicalism, black baseball and the World War II smokejumpers.