Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 512
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-5381-2735-3 • Hardback • June 2019 • $40.00 • (£31.00)
978-1-5381-2736-0 • eBook • June 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Bryan Soderholm-Difatte is a former senior analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and a regular contributor to The Baseball Research Journal. He is the author of The Golden Era of Major League Baseball: A Time of Transition and Integration (2015) and America’s Game: A History of Major League Baseball through World War II (2017), both published by Rowman & Littlefield.
A highly interesting chronicle of Major League Baseball, from the time of Jackie Robinson’s entry as the first African American player in 1947 to the rise of free agency and the players’ strike of 1994–95. . . The brisk pace of Soderholm-Difatte’s narrative will surely capture the attention and imagination of fans who lived through this era, as well as informing those who want to recognize the issues that made the times “tumultuous”! Highly Recommended.
— CHOICE
The maturity of Major League Baseball fell between Jackie Robinson and Marvin Miller. It wasn't always smooth, and Bryan Soderholm-Difatte sorts it all out in this engaging journey through the detours and triumphs.— Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire, Munson, and Casey Stengel
Bryan Soderholm-Difatte has achieved the nearly impossible: boiling down a half-century of dramatic baseball history into one highly readable, wonderfully informative book.— Rob Neyer, author of Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
Bryan Soderholm-Difatte did his homework. Chronicling half a century of baseball’s troubles and triumphs, Tumultuous Times in America’s Game is a comprehensive, issue-centric reflection that leaves you better informed about the game. The author is equally at ease reporting on pennant races or signs of the times, from closing to collusion to relocation, but is at his best guiding the reader through the complexities of the national pastime’s integration period. — Lonnie Wheeler, author of Intangiball: The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games