Baseball's pivotal era, 1945-1951 /

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Author / Creator:	Marshall, William.
Imprint:	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Description:	1 online resource (528 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Players League (Baseball league) Players League (Baseball league) Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Baseball -- United States. Baseball. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11240064

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ISBN:	9780813158792 0813158796 1322596654 9781322596655 0813120411 9780813120416
Notes:	English. Print version record.
Summary:	With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, f.
Other form:	Print version: Marshall, William. Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813120416

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