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Bush league, big city : the Brooklyn Cyclones, Staten Island Yankees, and the New York-Penn League / Michael Sokolow.
Van Pelt Library GV875.B69 S65 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sokolow, Michael, author.
- Series:
- Excelsior editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn Cyclones (Baseball team)--History.
- Brooklyn Cyclones (Baseball team).
- Staten Island Yankees (Baseball team)--History.
- Staten Island Yankees (Baseball team).
- New York-Penn League (Baseball league)--History.
- New York-Penn League (Baseball league).
- Baseball fields--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Baseball fields.
- Baseball--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Baseball.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The saga of New York's push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Our Own Little Communities
- ch. 2 Dictating Things from a Distance
- ch. 3 What the Hell Do They Care?
- ch. 4 New Stadiums Do Not Produce Economic Growth
- ch. 5 Sane Businesspeople Become Misty-Eyed
- ch. 6 We Are Committed to Nobody Except Watertown
- ch. 7 It Will Be Great for Staten Island
- ch. 8 We Could Not Stay in St. Catharines
- ch. 9 Coney Island Is Hot Right Now
- ch. 10 An Insult to the People of Brooklyn
- ch. 11 Waiting for Exactly This: The Inaugural Season
- ch. 12 Not Even a Smidgen of Sentiment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438492636
- 1438492634
- OCLC:
- 1347218557
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