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Baseball Under the Lights: The Rise of the Night Game - Softcover

Charlie Bevis (author)

 
9781476680156: Baseball Under the Lights: The Rise of the Night Game
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476680159 ISBN 13: 9781476680156
Publisher: McFarland, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
McFarland
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1476680159
ISBN 13 
9781476680156
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
210