Tumultuous Times in America's Game

Preface
PART I: BASEBALL'S INTEGRATION AND EXPANSIONIST IMPERATIVE
1: Baseball's Postwar Landscape: The "Race Question" and "Player Relationships"
2: The Yankees' Dynastic Momentum Returns
3: Brooklyn's Glorious Decade of Baseball
4: Relocation (Braves), Relocation (Browns), Relocation (Athletics)
5: Integration's Incremental Progress
6: Baseball's Manifest Destiny: The Road to Expansion
7: The First Latin Wave
PART II: THE LAST OF THE OLD-FASHIONED PENNANT RACES
8: West Coast Rivalry
9: The Perils of Genius: Explaining the '64 Phillies' Epic Collapse
10: The (Temporary) End of the Yankees' Forever Dynasty
11: Waiting in the Wings When the Yanks Went Down
12: Baseball's Last Great Pennant Race and the Impossible Dream Team
13: Expansion Decade
14: Let's Go, Mets: Durocher on the Other Side of a Miracle
PART III: SHIFTING BALANCES IN THE GAME AND THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL
15: Race, War, Cultural Upheaval, and Baseball in America
16: From Pitchers Rule to the DH Rule
17: O's and A's and Their Winning Ways
18: The Rise of the Big Red Machine and the Return of Dodger Blue
19: Sparky's Hook: Anticipating the Quality Start
20: Marvin Miller Time: Not the (Presumed) End of Baseball History
21: A New Boss Reboots the Yankee Dynasty
22: Pennsylvania Has Its Say in the NL East
PART IV: BASEBALL'S (ALMOST) "ALL IN IT TO WIN IT" DECADE
23: 1980s AL East: Taking Advantage of Yankees Dysfunction
24: Squandered Greatness: The Rise and Demise of a Mets Dynasty
25: Red Sox, Cubs, and the Weight of History
26: How the '80s AL West Was Won
27: Musical Chairs in the NL West
28: Failure to Launch: Where Winning Was a Losing Proposition
PART V: BASEBALL AT THE BRINK
29: The Pete Rose Affair, the A's 'Roid Age, and the Integrity of the Game
30: Redefining the End Game: Paradigm Shifts in the Role of Relief Ace
31: The Consolidation of Integration and the Importance of Cito Gaston
32: Baseball's Great Divide
33: From Collusion to Bud Selig's Coup (and the Eve of Destruction)
34: The Day the Music Stopped
Bibliography
Index
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