Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

In this book, Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921: from rigidly maintained racial segregation and players’ crushed attempts to unionize; through the civil rights movement and the arrival of television; to the establishment of unions for players and umpires, who fought increasingly bitter struggles to acquire and keep higher pay, pensions, and occupational mobility.