America's Game in the Wild-Card Era
From Strike to Pandemic- Autor:innen:
- Verlag:
- 2021
Zusammenfassung
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
"Baseball fans actively following the sport in the 1990s and 2000s will greatly appreciate this fantastic book and its detailed insight." —Library Journal
Major League Baseball has had a long and storied history, but perhaps no era has been as competitive and unpredictable as the past 25 years, with an expanded postseason making for an unexpected and entertaining end to each season.
In America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era: From Strike to Pandemic, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a compelling examination of Major League Baseball since the 1994 players’ strike. He reveals how the last quarter century has been the most dynamic in MLB history and argues that bringing wild-card teams and the division-series round into the postseason mix have fundamentally changed how dynasties should be perceived. Following the major storylines for all 30 teams, along with the division races and state of dynasties over the past 25 years, America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era is a captivating look into a new age of baseball.
America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era, together with Soderholm-Difatte’s America’s Game, Tumultuous Times in America’s Game, and The Reshaping of America’s Game, form the author’s complete, definitive history of Major League Baseball.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Copyrightjahr
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-4593-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-4594-4
- Verlag
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 273
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Contents Kein Zugriff
- Author’s Note Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- 1 Trio of Aces Front the Always-First Braves Kein Zugriff
- 2 Return of the Yankees’ Forever Dynasty Kein Zugriff
- 3 Cleveland’s Runaway Central Train Kein Zugriff
- 4 End of the Dodgers’ O’Malley Era Kein Zugriff
- 5 The Bottom 25 Percent Kein Zugriff
- 6 Wild-Card World Series Kein Zugriff
- 7 Cubs Lose Kein Zugriff
- 8 Yankees “Apocalypse Now” Becomes Red Sox Resurrection Kein Zugriff
- 9 Mets Meltdowns Kein Zugriff
- 10 Phillies Flip the ’64 Script Kein Zugriff
- 11 Baseball Back in Washington Kein Zugriff
- 12 The Cardinals’ Longevity Reboot Kein Zugriff
- 13 Breaking through in the AL East Kein Zugriff
- 14 Giants and Red Sox Roller-coaster Dynasties Kein Zugriff
- 15 Mets Meltdowns Kein Zugriff
- 16 Cubs’ Climate Change in Chicago; Droughts Continue Elsewhere Kein Zugriff
- 17 Houston’s Cheatskates Kein Zugriff
- 18 “Wait ’Til Next Year” Comes to LA Kein Zugriff
- 19 Not the Same Steinbrenner Kein Zugriff
- Epilogue Kein Zugriff Seiten 241 - 246
- Quotes and Notes Kein Zugriff Seiten 247 - 252
- Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 253 - 260
- Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 261 - 272
- About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 273 - 273




