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No Minor Accomplishment : the Revival of New Jersey Professional Baseball.
In No Minor Accomplishment, sports historian and New Jersey native Bob Golon tells the story of the state?s baseball scene since the Trenton Thunder arrived in 1994. Drawing on interviews with team owners and employees, industry executives and fans, Golon goes behind the scenes to show how maintaini...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In No Minor Accomplishment, sports historian and New Jersey native Bob Golon tells the story of the state?s baseball scene since the Trenton Thunder arrived in 1994. Drawing on interviews with team owners and employees, industry executives and fans, Golon goes behind the scenes to show how maintaining a minor league ball club can be a risky business venture. Stadiums cost millions to build, and a team full of talented players does not immediately guarantee success. Instead, each of the eight minor league and independent professional teams in the state must tailor themselves to the communities. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813544694 0813544696 1281397288 9781281397287 |