America's Game in the Wild-Card Era
From Strike to Pandemic
Zusammenfassung
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
"Baseball fans actively following the sport in the 1990s and 2000s will greatly appreciate this fantastic book and its detailed insight." —Library Journal
Major League Baseball has had a long and storied history, but perhaps no era has been as competitive and unpredictable as the past 25 years, with an expanded postseason making for an unexpected and entertaining end to each season.
In America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era: From Strike to Pandemic, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a compelling examination of Major League Baseball since the 1994 players’ strike. He reveals how the last quarter century has been the most dynamic in MLB history and argues that bringing wild-card teams and the division-series round into the postseason mix have fundamentally changed how dynasties should be perceived. Following the major storylines for all 30 teams, along with the division races and state of dynasties over the past 25 years, America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era is a captivating look into a new age of baseball.
America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era, together with Soderholm-Difatte’s America’s Game, Tumultuous Times in America’s Game, and The Reshaping of America’s Game, form the author’s complete, definitive history of Major League Baseball.
Schlagworte
Analytics Bud Selig steroids modern baseball MLB Major League Baseball diversity in baseball contemporary baseball baseball controversies baseball history home run record- i–xviii Preface i–xviii
- 191–240 IV: Paradigm Shifts 191–240
- 241–246 Epilogue 241–246
- 247–252 Quotes and Notes 247–252
- 253–260 Bibliography 253–260
- 261–272 Index 261–272
- 273–273 About the Author 273–273