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The Stars Are Back : The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Unrest in 1946 / Jerome M. Mileur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mileur, Jerome M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball players--United States--History--20th century.
- Baseball players.
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1946, as the aftershocks of World War II still trembled across the globe, America returned to its favorite pastime: baseball.In The Stars Are Back , Jerome M.Mileur offers a fascinating account of this storied season and of the backstage battle that would forever transform the game of professional baseball.
- Contents:
- From foxhole to dugout
- Peace is hell
- They boys come marching home
- What may be
- Moving up, and out
- Of barristers and baseball
- The swoons in June
- Midsummer dreams
- Hardball on and off the diamond
- The travails of travel
- Dog days and vacation time
- Into the stretch
- To the wire and beyond
- Seeing red: birds and sox
- 1946 and beyond.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3272-8
- OCLC:
- 861536328
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