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The Postwar Yankees

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209605
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Postwar Yankees written by David George Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yankees and New York baseball entered a golden age between 1949 and 1964, a period during which the city was represented in all but one World Series. While the Yankees dominated, however, the years were not so golden for the rest of baseball. In The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited, David G. Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today's game bemoan, including a competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill-equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture, while television and new forms of leisure competed for their attention. Through an economist's lens, Surdam brings together historical documents and off-the-field numbers to reconstruct the period and analyze the roots of the age's enduring mythology, examining why the Yankees and other New York teams were consistently among baseball's elite and how economic and social forces set in motion during this golden age shaped the sport into its modern incarnation.

The Postwar Yankees

Author : David G. Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803218753
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Postwar Yankees written by David G. Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited, David G. Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today's game bemoan, including a competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill-equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture.

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

Author : Ervin L. Jordan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813915456
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia written by Ervin L. Jordan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.

Pinstripe Nation

Author : William Carlson Bishop
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621904014
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Pinstripe Nation written by William Carlson Bishop and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. Since the early twentieth century, movies, novels, memoirs, pop songs, and even TV sitcoms have either dealt directly with the Bronx club and its star players or incorporated key elements of Yankee iconography. In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation's larger cultural narrative. In 1920, with their acquisition of Babe Ruth, the Yankees rose to prominence. With his power-hitting style attracting legions of new fans, the "Great Bambino" became a national hero of the Roaring Twenties. In contrast to Ruth's flamboyance, his less flashy successors Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio captured the spirit of striving and courage that carried America through the Depression and WWII years. The Pride of the Yankees, a popular movie celebrating Gehrig's career, and the Hemingway novella The Old Man and the Sea, whose protagonist reveres DiMaggio, typified the trend. Mirroring the nation's postwar swagger and confidence, the club of the Mickey Mantle-era remained hugely popular, but "Yankee hating" set in as well. Novels like Mark Harris's The Southpaw and Douglas Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant signified a widespread resentment of the team's outsized dominance. Amid the national turmoil of the 1960s, the Yankees also went into decline. In the following decades, as player salaries soared and team infighting grabbed headlines, the once-glowing portrayals of the team gave way to tell-all books like Ball Four and The Bronx Zoo. Yet, as this informative and entertaining book amply shows, the Yankees have, through all their ups and downs, retained a hold on the American imagination unmatched by any other sports franchise. -- Provided by publisher.

World War II and the Postwar Years in America [2 volumes]

Author : William H. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031335653X
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book World War II and the Postwar Years in America [2 volumes] written by William H. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 articles provide a revealing look at one of the most tempestuous decades in recent American history, describing the everyday activities of Americans as they dealt first with war, and then a difficult transition to peace and prosperity. The two-volume World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia contains over 175 articles describing everyday life on the American home front during World War II and the immediate postwar years. Unlike publications about this period that focus mainly on the big picture of the war and subsequent economic conditions, this encyclopedia drills down to the popular culture of the 1940s, bringing the details of the lives of ordinary men, women, and children alive. The work covers a broad range of everyday activities throughout the 1940s, including movies, radio programming, music, the birth of commercial television, advertising, art, bestsellers, and other equally intriguing topics. The decade was divided almost evenly between war (1940-1945) and peace (1946-1950), and the articles point up the continuities and differences between these two periods. Filled with evocative photographs, this unique encyclopedia will serve as an excellent resource for those seeking an overview of life in the United States during a decade that helped shape the modern world.

A Yankee Private's Civil War

Author : Robert Hale Strong
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486316165
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book A Yankee Private's Civil War written by Robert Hale Strong and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving memoir by a writer who served as a teenaged Union recruit. True tales of punishment, revenge, devotion, and quiet heroism as well as survival methods of the average soldier.

The Baseball Film in Postwar America

Author : Ron Briley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484799
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Film in Postwar America written by Ron Briley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with the 1962 Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris vehicle Safe at Home!, when the consensus was that conflict should be limited in American society by emphasizing economic growth and a strong stand against Communism. This study of selected films indicates, however, that this strategy was not entirely effective; while offering a certain amount of nostalgia, these films could not provide shelter from the storm gathering in postwar America which challenged conventional ideas of race, gender and class and broke in the 1960s.

The New York Yankees of the 1950s

Author : David Fischer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038931
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The New York Yankees of the 1950s written by David Fischer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium’s center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs, often tortured by leg ailments, was the number one box office draw in baseball. He was the American League’s most valuable player in 1956 and 1957, putting together a triple crown season in 1956. Mantle came into baseball when TV was just beginning to stir, and with the Yankees reaching the World Series and appearing on national TV seemingly every season, he became the face of the game during the decade. Mantle joined with his pals, pitcher Whitey Ford and infielder Billy Martin, to form a hard-partying trio that would be a joy and a pain to management. The author of several books on the Yankees, David Fischer will bring expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the saga of the most dominant decade in the annals of sport, set during a defining moment in U.S. history.

Damn Yankees!

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807160598
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Damn Yankees! written by George C. Rable and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, Louisiana State University."

When the Yankees Came

Author : Stephen V. Ash
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860131
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book When the Yankees Came written by Stephen V. Ash and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern postwar mentality. When the Yankees Came is the first comprehensive study of the occupied South, bringing to light a wealth of new information about the southern home front. Among the intriguing topics Ash explores are guerrilla warfare and other forms of civilian resistance; the evolution of Union occupation policy from leniency to repression; the impact of occupation on families, churches, and local government; and conflicts between southern aristocrats and poor whites. In analyzing these topics, Ash examines events from the perspective not only of southerners but also of the northern invaders, and he shows how the experiences of southerners differed according to their distance from a garrisoned town.

New York Yankees Openers

Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667659
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book New York Yankees Openers written by Lyle Spatz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Yankees are baseball's most storied team. They first played at Hilltop Park, then moved to the Polo Grounds, then Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, back to the renovated Yankee Stadium, and now in the new Yankee Stadium. They also frequently opened the season in Boston's historic Fenway Park, fondly remembered Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and all around the expanded leagues after 1961. This book details every opening-day celebration and game from 1903 to 2017, while noting how each was affected by war, the economy, political and social protest and population shifts. We see presidents and politicians, entertainers, celebrities, and fans, owners, managers, and most of all, the players.

Yankee Leviathan

Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398176
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Leviathan written by Richard Franklin Bensel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending that intense competition for national political economy control produced secession, this study describes the impact of the American Civil War upon the late nineteenth century development of central state authority.

Yankee Women

Author : Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393313727
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Women written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of three Northern women who radically changed America's central notions about gender during the Civil War.

The Ultimate Yankee Book

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1624144330
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Yankee Book written by Harvey Frommer and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The perfect gift for the diehard fan in your life or an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive resource of trivia, people and stories from the teams creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer is a renowned baseball historian and the author of The New York Yankee Encyclopedia. In many ways, this book is an expansion and renovation of that book, adding new stories such as the Steinbrenner owners and famed recent legends such as Derek Jeter and A-Rod. But it goes beyond the first book. Far more than just stories, the book is packed with enough statistics, bests-and-worsts, oddities and assorted data to satisfy serious trivia junkies. One of the best new features is the Yankee March of Time, including essential trivia from every year, and the daring and daunting Ultimate Yankee Quiz. Test your own knowledge or that of friends and family at your next gathering or World Series party with 150 questions and detailed answers in this fun, informative quiz. Fans of the Yankees are proud to call their team the greatest of all time not only have they boasted the most World Series championships and the most players in the Hall of Fame, they re also the most hotly discussed team in the news media, social media and in books."--Publisher's description.

Team Chemistry

Author : Nathan Michael Corzine
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097890
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Team Chemistry written by Nathan Michael Corzine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it: In 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived "elixir" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games. Sandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes. Players returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen. Vida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings. Corzine also ventures outside the lines to show how authorities handled--or failed to handle--drug and alcohol problems, and how those problems both shaped and scarred the game. The result is an eye-opening look at what baseball's relationship with substances legal and otherwise tells us about culture, society, and masculinity in America.

Twenty Million Yankees

Author : Donald Dale Jackson
Publisher : Time Life Education
ISBN 13 : 9780809447527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Million Yankees written by Donald Dale Jackson and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life in the North during the Civil War

Those Damn Yankees

Author : Dean Chadwin
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842836
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Those Damn Yankees written by Dean Chadwin and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the perfect season. In 1998, baseball's fans thrilled to Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire's home run slugfest and the Yankees won more games in a season than any team in Major League history. Baseball boomed across the US but the biggest bang was in New York where millions celebrated at a victory motorcade along the Avenue of Heroes.