{"product_id":"a-whole-different-ball-game-the-inside-story-of-the-baseball-revolution-9781566635998","title":"A Whole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than a century the owners of baseball franchises conducted their business like feudal barons, with the players in the role of serfs. This situation began to change in 1966, when the Major League Baseball Players Association was formed and Marvin Miller, who had been chief economist and assistant to the president of the steelworkers' union, became its first executive director. Here he recounts his 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. Candid in his assessments of the characters involved in this drama, Mr. Miller is nonetheless generous in his comments about the ballplayers who made sacrifices for their union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball fans may…have more fun spending their money on this new edition of the book… * Star Democrat, Easton, Md *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating account…very well written by the man at the center of it all…. Spiced with hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes. * Bookcrossing.Com *\u003cbr\u003eProvides an 'inside' story of baseball….outlines [Miller's] influence and baseball history. * The Bookwatch *\u003cbr\u003eBrutally frank and immensely engrossing. * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e[After Babe Ruth,] the second most influential man in the history of baseball. -- Red Barber\u003cbr\u003eDuring his sixteen years in the game Marvin Miller was the true commissioner of baseball. -- Jim Bouton\u003cbr\u003eMarvin Miller took on the establishment and whipped them. -- Reggie Jackson\u003cbr\u003eThe man did more to change the game in the last 25 years than anyone else. -- Bill Madden * New York Daily News *\u003cbr\u003eThere is no man in our time who has had more impact on the business of baseball than Marvin Miller. -- Tom Seaver\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most important [books] ever published about baseball. -- Stephen Jay Gould * The New York Review Of Books *\u003cbr\u003eMarvin Miller is as important to the history of baseball as Jackie Robinson. -- Hank Aaron","brand":"Ivan R Dee, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515921469783,"sku":"9781566635998","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-whole-different-ball-game-the-inside-story-of-the-baseball-revolution-9781566635998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}