Description
Book Synopsis The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Tabula Rasa: Baseball's Golden Age
- 2. The Age of Innocence's Final Years
- 3. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
- 4. In the Steel City: Dock Ellis, 1968–1975
- 5. Standard Bearer as Black Power Surfaces?
- 6. In the City of Brotherly Love: Dick Allen, 1963–1970
- 7. Baseball's Biggest Outlaw
- 8. Pride of Wampum, Pennsylvania
- 9. Similarities and Differences: Ellis Versus Allen
- 10. Effects on the Game
- 11. Recreational Drugs Creep into Baseball
- 12. White Powder's Allure
- 13. Drugs Come of Age
- 14. The Pittsburgh Drug Trials
- 15. Marvin Miller, the MLBPA, and Labor Strife
- 16. Twists and Turns in the Demise of the Reserve System
- 17. Major League Baseball's Non-Answer
- 18. MLB's Drug Abuse Target: Steve Howe
- 19. Users Left by the Wayside
- 20. Turbulence as the Bridge to PEDs
- 21. MLB Finally Regulates Drug Use
- Postscript
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
