Much More Than a Game
, by Burk, Robert Fredrick- ISBN: 9780807849088 | 0807849081
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/2001
In this book, Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921: from rigidly maintained racial segregation & players' crushed attempts to unionize; through the civil rights movement & the arrival of television; to the establishment of unions for players & umpires, who fought increasingly bitter struggles to acquire & keep higher pay, pensions, & occupational mobility.