How Long to Read Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951

How Long Does it Take to Read Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 45 minutes to read Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 by William Marshall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement. Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts, minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension plan—the very issues that would divide players and owners almost fifty years later. During these years, the game was led by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated, unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to complain that he was the "player's commissioner, the fan's commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's commissioner but the men who pay him."

How long is Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951?

Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 by William Marshall is 694 pages long, and a total of 176,276 words.

This makes it 234% the length of the average book. It also has 215% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 3 minutes to read Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 aloud.

What Reading Level is Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951?

Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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