For Sullivan (The Dodgers Move West), the business of baseball provides a window on city politics as well as on the shifting economics and demographics of American society in the past 100 years. Several times since the original Baltimore Orioles...
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Neil J. Sullivan, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-03864-9
This impressive history of baseball in the smaller towns and cities of the U.S. is divided into three sections. The first covers the years from 1877 to 1920, when the modern game was evolving and the general outlines of major and minor leagues were...
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Neil J. Sullivan, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-312-07723-5
Contemporary baseball fans frequently bemoan the current state of the game, especially what they see as an increased emphasis on business instead of sport. But Sullivan ( Minors ), an associate professor of public administration at the City...
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Neil J. Sullivan. Potomac, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-61234-815-5
There are many histories of the atom bomb, but this excellent addition to the literature from Sullivan (Diamond in the Bronx), professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, tells the story from an unusual angle, pointing out that many
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