A Whole Different Ball Game
The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution
Published on 12. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-56663-599-8 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a century the owners of baseball franchises conducted their business like feudal barons, with the players in the role of serfs. This situation began to change in 1966, when the Major League Baseball Players Association was formed and Marvin Miller, who had been chief economist and assistant to the president of the steelworkers' union, became its first executive director. Here he recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever, and thereby raised salaries enormously. Candid in his assessments of the characters involved in this drama, Mr. Miller is nonetheless generous in his comments about the ballplayers who made sacrifices for their union.
Reviews / Votes
Baseball fans may...have more fun spending their money on this new edition of the book... * Star Democrat, Easton, Md * A fascinating account...very well written by the man at the center of it all.... Spiced with hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes. * Bookcrossing.Com * Provides an 'inside' story of baseball....outlines [Miller's] influence and baseball history. * The Bookwatch * Brutally frank and immensely engrossing. * Kirkus Reviews * [After Babe Ruth,] the second most influential man in the history of baseball. -- Red Barber During his sixteen years in the game Marvin Miller was the true commissioner of baseball. -- Jim Bouton Marvin Miller took on the establishment and whipped them. -- Reggie Jackson The man did more to change the game in the last 25 years than anyone else. -- Bill Madden * New York Daily News * There is no man in our time who has had more impact on the business of baseball than Marvin Miller. -- Tom Seaver One of the most important [books] ever published about baseball. -- Stephen Jay Gould * New York Review of Books * Marvin Miller is as important to the history of baseball as Jackie Robinson. -- Hank AaronMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56663-599-8 (9781566635998)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
As executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 to 1983, Marvin Miller revolutionized the relationship between players and owners, and forever changed the nature of the game. He lives in New York City.