Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s.
This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Lively and thoroughly researched book...Bevis infuses his narrative with delightful anecdotes and interesting characters... This detailed history of night baseball will enlighten even the most knowledgeable fans and will surely appeal to readers interested in sports history"-Library Journal "Bevis does a fine job of juggling the various factors at play in the tug-of-war between advocates of widespread night baseball and those clinging to the status quo...Thorough and (pun intended) illuminating."-Outside the Lines
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
48 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8015-6 (9781476680156)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charlie Bevis, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, is a retired adjunct professor of English at Rivier University. He has written for Nine, The Cooperstown Symposium, The National Pastime and Base Ball, and is the author of several baseball books. He lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
?1.?Original Audience for Daylight Baseball
?2.?Premodern Night Baseball
?3.?Boosterism and Baseball
?4.?Night Games by Cahill's Arc Lights
?5.?Attendance Decline at Weekday Games
?6.?Birth of Modern Night Baseball
?7.?Minor League Introduction
?8.?Divergent Views
?9.?National League Adoption
10.?American League Adoption
11.?The War Years
12.?Postwar Expansion
13.?-Twi-Night Doubleheaders
14.?Boosting Night Games in the 1950s
15.?Pushing Boundaries
16.?Maximizing Night Baseball
Appendix A: First Night Games in the Minor Leagues in 1930
Appendix B: First Night Games by Class AA -Minor-League Ball Clubs
Appendix C: First Night Games by -Major-League Ball Clubs
Appendix D: -Major-League Night Games, 1935-1985
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
