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The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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- Shiner, David
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Larry Moffi. The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 226 pp. Paper, $24.95.
What's in store for Major League baseball? No one can be certain. For about a quarter of a century, labor disputes threatened to rupture the game. Baseball seems to have rebounded from those troubles as vibrant as ever, but doubts remain. The recent (and ongoing) steroid scandal is only the latest in baseball's seemingly endless series of crises. What will it take for the sport--or, more specifically, that corporate entity entitled "Major League Baseball"--to insure its integrity and its future?
Larry Moffi doesn't ...
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