| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball since 1921. By Robert F. Burk. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii, 372 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2592-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4908-1.)

Robert F. Burk's Much More than a Game, read in conjunction with his earlier volume, Never just a Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball to 1920 (1994), offers the most complete and accessible history of the business side of baseball currently available. Burk deals with issues of the minor leagues, race and ethnicity, the Negro leagues, and the intersection of sport and media, but the primary focus of his most recent work addresses labor relations, the ongoing struggle between owners and players over how to divide the ever-growing economic pie generated by the business of baseball. For those already familiar with this story, Burk's work, largely a skillful synthesis of secondary sources, provides an apt refresher course with few surprises. For those new to the subject, however, Never just a Game and Much More than a Game constitute an excellent introduction. . . .

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