Never Just a Game(English, Paperback, Burk Robert F.)

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Never Just a Game(English, Paperback, Burk Robert F.) is written by Burk Robert F. and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807849618 (ISBN 10) and 9780807849613 (ISBN 13).

Baseball's early labor wars America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this labor history of baseball from its beginning to 1920, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying world force and recounts its battles for a place in baseballs decision-making structure. Tracing the development of franchise competition, rival leagues, and trade wars - and the boom-and-bust cycles, franchise bankruptcies, and Jeague mergers they triggered in turn - he explores the off-field acrimony that characterized the sport's labor-management relations.