How the interplay of media, race, and one player's defiance created free agency and changed baseball forever Curt Flood in the Media examines the public discour

Baseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television series. But ho

The tale of the season of competition between McGwire and Sosa to break the hitting record.

This work explores how the new medium of television changed America's pastime and traces the sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship between

From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire