Course Details

This short class will aim to discuss the transformation of Major League Baseball during a roughly 30-year period following the end of World War in a number of ways: 1) the decision to allow black players to play on MLB teams and the increasing presence of players from Latin America on teams; 2) the change from 16 teams based exclusively in cities in the Northeast and the Midwest, 24 teams based in cities across the entire US, including the West Coast and the South; and 3) the change from a game in which owners had control of their players through the "reserve clause" to an era in which players had some choice on which teams they could play,