Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Uncooperative Partners -- 2. Starting Down the Road to Eclipse -- 3. Demographics -- 4. The Boys Club-Eight Men in a Room -- 5. The First Expansion -- 6. New Blood, Bad Blood-Ten Men at a Table -- 7. Changing the Guard -- 8. The Young Turks -- 9. The Luckiest City since Hiroshima -- 10. The Nadir -- 11. The New Guard-Twelve Men at a Table -- 12. Expansion Three -- 13. Comeback and Irrelevance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The first examination of the management of the American League and its consequences for the twentieth century