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Lädt ... A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseballvon Marvin Miller
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is Marvin Miller's fascinating account of the rise of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a.k.a. the major league players' union, and his own role in that rise as the union's executive director. Miller's book provides an insider's view of this history of player/owner relations, the development of the players' power to defend their rights and enhance their own earning power. The book also details clearly the causes and issues involved in each of the player strikes and owner lockouts over the years. The owners don't come off too well in this chronicle to put it mildly. Miller does not try to hid the fact that this is a subjective account, but he still makes a compelling case for the bone-headedness and greed of the owners and especially of Bowie Kuhn, who was commissioner during much of the early labor activities within the industry. Really, I now consider this a must-read for anyone interested in baseball on any level deeper than the on-the-field exploits of the players. Miller is also a decent writer and the narrative moves along nicely. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"A Whole Different Ball Game recounts Miller's experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever, and thereby raised salaries enormously and brought explosive changes that rocked the foundation of professional sports. Miller relates these events as no one else can, and he explains why the victories of the players' union were good for baseball. Along the way he provides dramatic portraits of prominent players, owners, baseball writers, arbitrators, and commissioners. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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