0195123603. Bright and fresh copy.; B&W Photographs; 225 pages.

0195123603. Bright and fresh copy.; B&W Photographs; 225 pages.

xv, [1], 224, [8] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Professor Sullivan

xv, [1], 224, [8] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Professor Sullivan teaches courses on the impact of politics, law and governmental institutions on public administration. His research interests have focused on the business of major league baseball and its relationship to government, as well as the politics involved with the public financing of stadiums. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Brandeis University. Having attended their first game in his boyhood home of Los Angeles, this seemed to be a splendid idea, and it turned into The Dodgers Move West. Subsequent baseball books have included The Minors: The Struggles and the Triumph of Baseball's Poor Relation from 1876 to the Present; The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball after the Collapse of Its Ruling Class; and The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York. Derived from a Publisher's Weekly review: For Sullivan, the business of baseball provides a window on city politics as well as on the shifting economics and demographics of American society in the past 100 years. Several times since the original Baltimore Orioles moved to New York to become the Highlanders in 1903, stadium controversies and other conflicts between the team and the city have flared. In the past few decades government funding for stadiums is once again a matter of heated public debate. Sullivan himself, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College in New York, is clearly skeptical about public spending on stadiums, noting that the Yankees benefit more from having their stadium in the Bronx than does New York City. Baseball stadiums mainly carry a symbolic value for the city's residents. But as Sullivan's own evident love for the game shows, symbols can carry a lot of weight. Sullivan's scholarly book will be appealing to baseball fans and urban history enthusiasts.