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The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81
by
Charles Korr
"The End of Baseball As We Knew It draws on the records of the Major League Baseball Players Association and interviews with ballplayers, journalists, and labor executives to give this insider's view of the famous shift in power from management to players that set the standard in labor relations not just in baseball, but in all professional sports.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
February 15th 2005
by University of Illinois Press
(first published June 19th 2002)
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Very interesting history of the Major League Baseball Association (union) from 1966 to the mid 1980s. It chronicles the change in the association from an association that had no power to help its members to a strong union which helped the players increase their salaries and benefits. It discusses the beginnings of salary arbitration and free agency and the hero of the book is Marvin Miller. It was fun and I learned a lot that I didn't know.
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