Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920, by Robert F. BurkNever Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920, by Robert F. Burk. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xv, 284 pp. $34.95 U.S.

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-536
Author(s):  
Geoffrey S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Game Players

Robet F. Burk, Much More than A Game: Players, Owners and American Baseball Since 1921. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001 xi + 372 pp. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper; Charles P. Korr, The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960–81. Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 2002. 336 pp. $34.95 cloth

2004 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Arbena
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Work Stoppage ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
National League ◽  
Game Players ◽  
The University

Critics, fans and journalists alike, of the players' role in the prolonged major league baseball work stoppage of 1994–1995, generally ignore two key realities of the history of the national pastime. First, at least since the founding of the National League in 1876, baseball at the highest levels has been primarily a business. Neither owners nor players played mainly for “the love of the game.” For the latter it was a way to make a living; for the former it was a way to make a profit.

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