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Balls and strikes : the money game in professional baseball / Kenneth M. Jennings.
Van Pelt Library GV880.15 .J46 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jennings, Kenneth M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective bargaining--Baseball--United States--History.
- Collective bargaining.
- Collective bargaining--Baseball.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 273 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Praeger, 1990.
- Summary:
- Kenneth M. Jennings examines union-management relations in professional baseball, bringing together all the information the sports fan needs to follow the issues surrounding player-management arbitration in this unique industry. Covering the history of collective bargaining action in baseball from 1869 to the 1990 season, this book examines the issues that influence those high-profile player-management-owner negotiations. Baseball fans and sports journalists, as well as professionals in management and labor relations, will find Balls and Strikes a fresh and exciting look at America's favorite pastime.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Collective Bargaining Efforts 1
- 1 Early Collective Bargaining 3
- 2 Marvin Miller and the MLBPA 19
- 3 Collective Bargaining in the 1980s 41
- Part 2 Collective Bargaining Participants 71
- 4 Owners, Commissioners, Media, and Agents 73
- 5 Manager-Player Relationships 99
- 6 Player Pressures and Problems 125
- Part 3 Remaining Player-Management Issues 155
- 7 The Race and Ethnic Issue 157
- 8 Player Mobility and Salary Arbitration 181
- 9 Salary Trends and Controversy 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275934411
- OCLC:
- 20260601
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