Major League Turbulence Baseball in the Era of Drug Use, Labor Strife and Black Power, 1968-1988
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Biografisk notat
Douglas M. Branson is the Sell Chair in Law (emeritus) at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of more than 20 books.“<i>Major League Turbulence</i> stands as an important book to help fans understand how baseball got to the place it resides in today's sporting consciousness, for better or worse.”—Pittsburgh Quarterly
The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
Preface
1. Tabula Rasa: Baseball’s Golden Age
2. The Age of Innocence’s Final Years
3. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
4. In the Steel City: Dock Ellis, 1968–1975
5. Standard Bearer as Black Power Surfaces?
6. In the City of Brotherly Love: Dick Allen, 1963–1970
7. Baseball’s Biggest Outlaw
8. Pride of Wampum, Pennsylvania
9. Similarities and Differences: Ellis Versus Allen
10. Effects on the Game
11. Recreational Drugs Creep into Baseball
12. White Powder’s Allure
13. Drugs Come of Age
14. The Pittsburgh Drug Trials
15. Marvin Miller, the MLBPA, and Labor Strife
16. Twists and Turns in the Demise of the Reserve System
17. Major League Baseball’s Non-Answer
18. MLB’s Drug Abuse Target: Steve Howe
19. Users Left by the Wayside
20. Turbulence as the Bridge to PEDs
21. MLB Finally Regulates Drug Use
Postscript
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index