The Making of Modern Baseball: Over 100 Years of Change That Formed America's Favorite Pastime

ISBN-13: 9781782551898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str.

Frank P. Jozsa

Opis

The Making of Modern Baseball examines the development of Major League Baseball, including the recruitment, entry, and performance of ballplayers from foreign countries; the competitive balance or degree of parity that exists among teams within and between the American and National League.

O autorze

A former college and semiprofessional athlete with an undergraduate degree in accounting and master's degrees in business administration and economics, and also a doctorate in economics, Frank P. Jozsa Jr. is the author of several books on team sports in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and others on intercollegiate sports programs and the role and progress of male and female student athletes on campuses of American colleges and universities. His memoir, A Hoosier's Journey: Athlete, Student, Teacher, and Author was published in 2011. Jozsa has also written several articles published in journals, magazines, and newspapers. His dissertation-"An Economic Analysis of Franchise Relocation and League Expansion in Professional Team Sports, 1950-1975"-was completed in 1977 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. After teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in business administration, economics, finance, and statistics for more than three decades, Jozsa retired from Pfeiffer University in 2007.