{"product_id":"marvin-miller-baseball-revolutionary-robert-f-burk-9780252038754","title":"Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary","description":"Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, \u003ci\u003eMarvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows the formative encounters with Depression-era hard times, racial and religious bigotry, and bare-knuckle Washington and labor politics that prepared Miller for his biggest professional challenge--running the moribund Major League Baseball Players Association. \u003cp\u003eEducating and uniting the players as a workforce, Miller embarked on a long campaign to win the concessions that defined his legacy: decent workplace conditions, a pension system, outside mediation of player grievances and salary disputes, a system of profit sharing, and the long-sought dismantling of the reserve clause that opened the door to free agency. Through it all, allies and adversaries alike praised Miller's hardnosed attitude, work ethic, and honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eMarvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e tells the inside story of a time of change in sports and labor relations, and of the contentious process that gave athletes in baseball and across the sporting world a powerful voice in their own games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Burk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252038754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252038754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2015 pg. 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2015","brand":"Robert F. Burk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946370400511,"sku":"9780252038754","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1b80b9af-edf3-4760-8bd0-bbd5a1708e7b.jpg?v=1681512760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marvin-miller-baseball-revolutionary-robert-f-burk-9780252038754","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}