This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history-including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America's wars and military interventions worldwide.
This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history-including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America's wars and military interventions worldwide.
Robert Elias is Dean's Scholar and Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco. His most recent baseball books include Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America and Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights and American Empire (both with Peter Dreier). His baseball essays have appeared in Nine, Jacobin, Baseball Research Journal, American History Magazine, Pacific Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Journal of the History of Sport, and the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. He is a longtime Society for American Baseball Research and Baseball Reliquary member. He lives in Mill Valley, CA, near San Francisco.
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Foreword, by Bill Lee Introduction Resisting Labor Exploitation 1. The Players Revolt Against Gilded Age Baseball 2. Challenging Baseball's Corporate Monopoly 3. Ending Indentured Servitude Contesting the American Empire 4. Resisting War, Fighting for Peace 5. The Latino Battle Against Baseball Colonialism and Racism 6. Protesting America's War on Terrorism Conclusion 7. Rebels for All Seasons 8. Baseball Justice: An Unfinished Agenda Index About the Authors
Foreword, by Bill Lee Introduction Resisting Labor Exploitation 1. The Players Revolt Against Gilded Age Baseball 2. Challenging Baseball's Corporate Monopoly 3. Ending Indentured Servitude Contesting the American Empire 4. Resisting War, Fighting for Peace 5. The Latino Battle Against Baseball Colonialism and Racism 6. Protesting America's War on Terrorism Conclusion 7. Rebels for All Seasons 8. Baseball Justice: An Unfinished Agenda Index About the Authors
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