The Detroit Tigers : Club and Community, 1945-1995 /

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The Detroit Tigers is the most complete view of the finances of any sports organization yet published. It also illustrates baseball's human dimension. Harrigan has conducted more than a hundred interviews with former players, their wives, team executives, media personalities, sports writers, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrigan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
Detroit Tigers (Équipe de base-ball) > Histoire.
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) > History.
Baseball.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Urban & Regional.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Essays & Writings.
Base-ball > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire.
Baseball > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Michigan > Detroit.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Baseball in Postwar American Society
  • 2. The Briggs Era of Detroit Baseball
  • 3. Transitions and Adaptation of the Detroit Baseball Club in the 1950s
  • 4. Community Problems and a World Championship
  • 5. The Players
  • 6. The Era of Personalities, 1969-1977
  • 7. Free Agency and Big Money for Baseball, 1977-1983
  • 8. The Golden Age of Detroit Baseball
  • 9. A Franchise in Decline
  • 10. The Stadium as Symbol
  • Epilogue: The 1994 Strike and Its Aftermath.

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