Stumbling around the Bases The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1496207033 | 199 pages | True EPUB | 1 MB
From the late 1950s to the 1980s, baseball’s American League mismanaged integration and expansion, allowing the National League to forge ahead in attendance and prestige. While both leagues had executive structures that presented few barriers to individual team owners acting purely in their own interests, it was the American League that succumbed to infighting-which ultimately led to its disappearance into what we now call Major League Baseball.Stumbling around the Basesis the story of how the American League fell into such a disastrous state, struggling for decades to escape its nadir and, when it finally righted itself, losing its independence.