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The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable.
Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened,
including the revered single-season home run record. The Montreal
Expos and New York Yankees were delivering remarkable campaigns. In
August, acting commissioner Bud Selig called a halt to the season
amid the League's latest labor dispute. The shutdown led to a
lockout as well as cancellation of more than 900 regular season
games, the scheduled expanded rounds of playoffs, and that year's
World Series. Like all labor struggles, it was fundamentally about
control--of salaries, of players' ability to decide their own
fates, and of the game itself. This book chronicles Major League
Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects. It
highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by
individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz, and Robert
Murphy to Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Jim "Catfish" Hunter,
and Donald Fehr. Also examined are the ballplayers' own
organizations, from the Players League of the early 1890s to the
still potent Major League Baseball Players Association doing battle
with team owners and their representatives.
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint
students with major issues in American history through the lives of
individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities
were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history.
Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen
chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the
broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not
only a diversity of individuals profiled including Mary Dyer and
Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and
Abraham Lincoln but also themes spanning political, economic,
social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined
biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more
extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key
issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also
offers study questions and a bibliography. Also Available: Lives
and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865
by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell"
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint
students with major issues in American history through the lives of
individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities
were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history.
Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen
chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the
broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not
only a diversity of individuals profiled including Mary Dyer and
Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and
Abraham Lincoln but also themes spanning political, economic,
social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined
biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more
extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key
issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also
offers study questions and a bibliography. Also Available: Lives
and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865
by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell
Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two
centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten
chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who
are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window
on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from
the antebellum period to the present.
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint
students with major issues in American history through the lives of
individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas
were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history.
Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen
chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the
broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not
only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also themes spanning
political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military
history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the
reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller
examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts.
Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Also
Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American
History: To 1877 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint
students with major issues in American history through the lives of
individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas
were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history.
Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen
chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the
broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not
only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also themes spanning
political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military
history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the
reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller
examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts.
Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Also
Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American
History: To 1877 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies
significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary
American life in a wide range of areas, including national
politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular
and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined
biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes:
to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer
a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal
supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since
1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century
America.
Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White
Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919
World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of
four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in
1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It
highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis, the longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball; Babe
Ruth, the great pitcher and slugger who changed the game forever;
Buck Weaver, the true lone innocent among the Black Sox players who
threw the 1919 World Series; and Rube Foster, the fine pitcher,
imaginative manager, and great administrator of blackball who
founded the Negro National League. Key events that affected the
season and the history of baseball are discussed. Nineteen-twenty
was the year that Ruth shattered his own home run record and began
a hitting spree that brought in record numbers of fans to the
ballparks. It was the year that Rube found a way for large numbers
of African-Americans to play the game meaningfully, before loyal
crowds, despite Jim Crow laws that kept them out of the majors and
minors.
Accounts of political debates, economic developments, and military
conflicts are all staples of our history, but there is much more to
the American story. This appealing book fills in another dimension
by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past
two centuries. In ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of
two remarkable individuals who are in some way emblematic of their
times, Icons of American Popular Culture provides an intriguing
window on the social, economic, and political history of our
democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of the
1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that
enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade.
Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the
counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia,
the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves
into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on
both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American
heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective
biography, through an exploration of the antics of seminal
countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy
Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters
covering "the magic elixir of sex," rock 'n roll, the underground
press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention
of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love,
the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies,
Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women's movement, and
the decade's legacies.
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies
significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary
American life in a wide range of areas, including national
politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular
and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined
biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes:
to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer
a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal
supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since
1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century
America.
As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first
African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth
century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are
forever linked because of the barriers they encountered, the
discrimination they endured, the athletic gifts they exhibited, and
especially the courage and dignity they displayed. Both suffered
ridicule and abuse as they participated in the national pastime.
Nevertheless, each excelled. Greenberg became one of the preeminent
sluggers of the 1930s and 1940s who took a break from baseball to
serve in the war. Robinson, from the mid-1940s into the following
decade, helped bring back speed and a thinking man s approach to
the game, both of which had largely been discarded for a
generation."Two Pioneers" presents these remarkable players
experiences while competing in a nation that was deeply divided on
social issues such as anti-Semitism and racism. Both men earned
nearly as much attention off the field as they did on it. Greenberg
called into question the idea of a master race as Adolf Hitler rose
to power and gained supporters all over the world. Likewise,
Robinson contested racial notions regarding the supposed
inferiority of people of African ancestry, even though
segregationists proved determined to maintain social barriers
separating blacks and whites. It is only fitting that when Robinson
finally crossed baseball s color line, Greenberg was one of the
first players to welcome him publicly.Robert Cottrell s
well-researched work shows how two baseball superstars became
important figures in the civil rights crusade to ensure that all
Americans, no matter their religion or race, are given equal
opportunity.
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