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Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

New condition hardcover with VG+ DJ. Oxford University Press, USA; First

New condition hardcover with VG+ DJ. Oxford University Press, USA; First Edition edition (2001). Otherwise pristine DJ has a couple 1/8-in. repaired tears, no chips, corner edge wear at top of spine. Choose Expedited shipping available for Priority Mail delivery in USA. Beige cloth covered boards, quarter-bound with sand colored buckram around spine and metallic blue spine lettering, has very slight bumping at ends of spine. Clean with sharp corners. Printed on acid-free high quality paper. All pages including end papers are new condition, no markings in perfect binding. Book has central photo plate section. The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium in the Politics of New York by Neil J. Sullivan, professor of school of public affairs, Baruch College, CUNY. This book is as much a 20th century history of the city as well as of the stadium and franchise. 6.5 x 9.63 x 1.0 inches. 14 B&W photos, xvi+225 pages, incl. end notes and index. I wrap to protect, ship daily, track, and guarantee. [B50_E0188].

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.