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Book SynopsisThis work chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight, survived the challenges of the postwar era. Some of the solutions were arrived at intelligently, some clumsily, but by the early 1960s baseball was a stronger, healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.
Trade ReviewMuch is made of the racial integration of baseball.... The descriptions and statistics are useful...accessible to general readers." —
Choice"Here's the story how the sport dealt with it all." —
USA Today Sports Weekly"Rossi explores the post World War II–preexpansion era in baseball looking at the baseball boom of 1947–48, the Yankees dynasty, franchise shifts and the forces that led to expansion." —
The SABR Bulletin"Illuminating for those who wish to see how baseball evolved." —
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