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The Strongest Trade Union in America

2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/rah.2003.0022

1080-6628

Roger I. Abrams,

Sports, Gender, and Society

Writing recent history has its pitfalls. Almost all the participants in the establishment and triumph of the modern baseball players union—the story Charles Korr tells in this interesting new book—are still alive. These workers and managers fought battles for primacy in the business of baseball not that different from Walter Reuther's confrontation with Ford Motor Company at the Rouge Bridge. No wonder their recollections differ. They were all at the barricades but on different sides. At times, it seemed they could not agree on whether the sun rose in the east or the west. They remain either triumphant or angry.