Major League turbulence : baseball in the era of drug use, labor strife and Black power, 1968-1988 / Douglas M. Branson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branson, Douglas M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Collective bargaining--Baseball.

Baseball players--Drug use.

Baseball players.

African American baseball players.

History.

United States.

Baseball--Social aspects--United States.

Baseball--Social aspects.

African American baseball players--History--20th century.

Baseball players--Drug use--United States.

Doping in sports--United States.

Doping in sports.

Collective bargaining--Baseball--United States.

Collective bargaining.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Ellis, Dock, 1945-2008.

Ellis, Dock.

Allen, Dick, 1942-2020.

Allen, Dick.

Miller, Marvin, 1917-2012.

Miller, Marvin.

Major League Baseball Players Association.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and dramatically changed nature of the game"-- Provided by publisher.

"The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Tabula Rasa: Baseball's Golden Age

2. The Age of Innocence's Final Years

3. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

4. In the Steel City: Dock Ellis, 1968

1975

5. Standard Bearer as Black Power Surfaces?

6. In the City of Brotherly Love: Dick Allen, 1963

1970

7. Baseball's Biggest Outlaw

8. Pride of Wampum, Pennsylvania

9. Similarities and Differences: Ellis Versus Allen

10. Effects on the Game

11. Recreational Drugs Creep into Baseball

12. White Powder's Allure

13. Drugs Come of Age

14. The Pittsburgh Drug Trials

15. Marvin Miller, the MLBPA, and Labor Strife

16. Twists and Turns in the Demise of the Reserve System

17. Major League Baseball's Non-Answer

18. MLB's Drug Abuse Target: Steve Howe

19. Users Left by the Wayside

20. Turbulence as the Bridge to PEDs

21. MLB Finally Regulates Drug Use.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Branson, Douglas M. Major League turbulence

ISBN:

9781476680583

1476680582

OCLC:

1235774896

Publisher Number:

99988677355