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BL
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1022305
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b776675
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Surdam, David G., (David George)
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The postwar Yankees : : baseball's golden age revisited /\ David G. Surdam.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (ix, 425 pages)
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| ISBN
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0803218753
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: 9780803218758
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0803217897
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1281958328
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9780803217898
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9781281958327
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : what golden age? -- Those Damn Yankees : dominance and submission in the American League -- Player movement and building the Yankees : leaving soon from a (small) city near you -- The game on the ledger : doldrums amid prosperity -- Changing demographics, suburbia, and leisure patterns : why did baseball attendance fall? -- Television and baseball : the new technology, friend or foe? -- Where is Robin Hood when you need him? : revenue sharing in the American League -- Isn't anybody going to help that game? : baseball attempts to rejuvenate its popularity -- The major league cartel : keeping out the interlopers -- The sixteen-headed hydra : the cartel faces the enmity within -- The Yankees' dynasty : did success spoil the team and its fans? -- Epilogue : what if the golden age ended and nobody cared?
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In The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited, David G. Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today's game bemoan, including a competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill-equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture.
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New York Yankees (Baseball team)-- History-- 20th century.
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New York Yankees (Baseball team)
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HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.
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Recreation Sports.
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Social Sciences.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Baseball-- Essays Writings.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Baseball-- History.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Baseball-- Statistics.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.357/64097471
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GV875.N4S87 2008eb
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