Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951

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University Press of Kentucky, 1999 - Sports & Recreation - 513 pages

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Contents

No One Is Qualified
13
1945 Season of Hope
27
1946
42
Murphy Money and More
63
1946 Season of Tumult
82
1947
98
Jackie Robinsons America
119
1947 Season of Fury
150
A Stepchild in Peril The Minors
249
1949 Pinstripes Prevail
269
1950
288
The Great Triumvirate and Other Stars
318
1950 Year of the Whiz Kids
350
1951
372
1951 The Shot Heard Round the World
396
Baseball Then and Now
425

1948
166
Ownership Has Its Privileges
184
1948 Indian Summer
209
1949
228
Notes
440
Sources
489
Index
495
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