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

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

This study of the Detroit Tigers over a half-century demonstrates how baseball has reflected the fortunes of America's postwar urban society. Patrick Harrigan shows that the declining fortunes of this franchise have been inextricably linked with those of its city and surrounding community. Atte...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Harrigan, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF APPENDICES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • TABLES
  • APPENDICES
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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