Charlie Bevis

Baseball Under the Lights

The Rise of the Night Game

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Produktbeschreibung

Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781476680156
• ISBN-10: 1476680159
• Artikelnr.: 62626995

Autorenporträt

Charlie Bevis, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, is a retired adjunct professor of English at Rivier University. He has written for Nine, The Cooperstown Symposium, The National Pastime and Base Ball, and is the author of several baseball books. He lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Introduction
1.
Original Audience for Daylight Baseball
2.
Premodern Night Baseball
3.
Boosterism and Baseball
4.
Night Games by Cahill's Arc Lights
5.
Attendance Decline at Weekday Games
6.
Birth of Modern Night Baseball
7.
Minor League Introduction
8.
Divergent Views
9.
National League Adoption 10.
American League Adoption 11.
The War Years 12.
Postwar Expansion 13.
Twi-Night Doubleheaders 14.
Boosting Night Games in the 1950s 15.
Pushing Boundaries 16.
Maximizing Night Baseball Appendix A: First Night Games in the Minor Leagues in 1930 Appendix B: First Night Games by Class AA Minor-League Ball Clubs Appendix C: First Night Games by Major-League Ball Clubs Appendix D: Major-League Night Games, 1935-1985 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index