Baseball bookshelf 2017. Part 4

We continue to review the “Baseball bookshelf 2017” series. “One Nation Under Baseball” by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro looks at how the turmoil of the 1960s sowed the seeds for today’s game.

A theme is ballplayers’ fight for higher wages, and when the labor lawyer Marvin Miller was hired in 1966 to lead the players’ union at the court filing: The Curt Flood case – undertaking the baseball’s reserve clause would eventually lead to free agency. This excellent read also covers race relations and other social issues, as well as the decade’s most memorable teams, players and events.
Read more about new baseball books in our next publications.
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