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Whole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution » (1st Edition)
Authors: Marvin Miller, Bill James (Introduction), Studs Terkel
ISBN-13: 9781566635998, ISBN-10: 1566635993
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Marvin Miller
Book Synopsis
Marvin Miller, the first executive director to the Major League Baseball Players Association, recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever, and thereby raised salaries enormously.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | To baseball | 3 |
| 2 | Brooklyn U.S.A | 11 |
| 3 | Making it to the majors | 19 |
| 4 | Take me out to the players association | 33 |
| 5 | Cannon country | 63 |
| 6 | Bowie Kuhn was not in the best interests of baseball | 85 |
| 7 | Alex Johnson : the maligned angel | 131 |
| 8 | Card wars | 142 |
| 9 | The six-thousand-dollar man | 153 |
| 10 | Flood gate | 170 |
| 11 | Strike one, 1972 | 203 |
| 12 | Catfish | 224 |
| 13 | Messersmith-McNally | 238 |
| 14 | Not a strike ... not a strike ... not a ... | 254 |
| 15 | Strike two, 1980-1981 | 286 |
| 16 | Take me out of the ball game | 320 |
| 17 | Lockout, 1990 | 350 |
| 18 | Owners and other bosses | 363 |
| 19 | White collars and black sox : Giamatti and Vincent (or, say it ain't so!) | 393 |
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