San Antonio College Library

"Gene Budig is not a typical baseball fan. To his lifelong love of the game, Budig adds six years of experience as the president of the American League of Major League Baseball, 1994-2000." "A career educator, administrator, and leader, Budig took his tenure inside baseball as an opportunity to experience or examine all aspects of the nation's game. In The Inside Pitch ... and More, he takes the reader from the bleachers to the dugout to the boardroom...

With its iconic stars and gleaming ballparks, baseball has been one of the most captivating forms of modern popular culture. This book examines the history and meaning of the sport's tumultuous changes since the mid-twentieth century, amid Major League Baseball's growing global influence. From the rise of ballplayer unionism to the emergence of new forms of scouting, broadcasting, and stadium development, the author shows that the baseball world has...

This book explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money. The author examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win. Over the past four years the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the...