The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81 (Sport and Society)

"The End of Baseball As We Knew It" draws on the records of the Major League Baseball Players Association and interviews with ballplayers, journalists, and labor executives to give this insider's view of the famous shift in power from management to players that set the standard in labor relations not just in baseball, but in all professional sports. Charles P. Korr is a professor of history at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and the author of "West Ham United: The Making of a Football Club". Bob Costas is an award-winning sports broadcaster and the author of "Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball". This is a volume in the series "Sport and Society", edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts.