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This 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.

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Much 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." —www.purebaseball.com

A Whole New Game

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    A Paperback by John P. Rossi

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/15/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786406517, 978-0786406517
      ISBN10: 0786406518

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Review
      Much 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." —www.purebaseball.com

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