Television and
baseball began their partnership in earnest during the 1950s.
Here in 1957 recently retired and soon to be Hall of Famer, Bob
Feller endorses products.
Baseball During the 1950s
Television and
baseball began their partnership in earnest during the 1950s.
Here in 1957 recently retired and soon to be Hall of Famer, Bob
Feller endorses products.
The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball site offers a copy of the decision in Toolson v. The New York Yankees, a 1950s challenge to baseball's antitrust exemption and the some testimony from Cellar Committee Hearings in 1951 and 1957-1958 on Major League Baseball's antitrust status
The Major League Baseball site's History and Records site has a short sketch of Commissioner Ford Frick.
The
Hall of Fame remembers the "Shot
Heard Round the World" in an online
exhibit complete with Russ Hodges "Giants Win the
Pennant" call.. The Polo Grounds home for the Giants until
they moved West in 1958 and the scene of the Bobby Thompson
"Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951 can be viewed at Ballparks.com
by Munsey and Suppes, a must web site for fans of stadia. An
outstanding written account of the Thompson homerun and its
sigificance is available in Jules Tygeil's, Past
Time, Oxford, 2000.
Walter O'Malley, "The O'Malley," perhaps the leading baseball executive of the 1950s and 1960s is remembered at the Walter O'Malley site with documents and photos at the Walter O'Malley website..
This page was last updated
March 30, 2005