My speed and control must both have been above the ordinary, for I made such a record during my senior year at college that overtures were made to me in behalf of one of the great
major-league teams; but in the tightest pitch that ever had confronted me in the past I had never been in such need for control as now.
The Cubs have hired former
major-league relief pitcher Craig Breslow as director of strategic initiatives for baseball operations.
Joe Gordon, another Oregon Hall of Famer who played second base for the Yankees and managed four
major-league teams, was responsible for signing Averill to a contract with the Indians.
Then again, Eddie Gaedel only had one
major-league plate appearance, at Sportsman's Park in St.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American player in
major-league baseball, which had been segregated until then.
Several themes are interwoven though the text: the reputation of early baseball players and how that changed during the 1920s due to the presence of Babe Ruth and other baseball greats; the role of racism in the South, particularly Florida, and how
major-league teams reacted to racism after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947; the ongoing struggles of Florida towns and cities to attract and keep
major-league teams for spring training; and finally, the rise of other spring training locales, particularly Arizona and to a lesser extent the threat posed by Las Vegas.
The International League consisted of many of the largest northeastern cities in North America that did not have a
major-league team: Baltimore, Buffalo, Jersey City, Montreal, Newark, Providence, Rochester, and Toronto.
The Miami-based Bean is also the author of Going the Other Way: Lessons From a Life In and Out of
Major-League Baseball.
Major-league baseball may seem an unlikely setting for the study of ideology in action, but the sport's recent history offers an object lesson in just how powerful prevailing dogma can be--especially when it presents itself merely as common sense.
And they look at the billboards plastered around the stadium, which advertisers pay for, piling up more money in the
major-league coffers.