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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bevis, Charlie, 1954- author.     Subjects     Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Stadiums -- Lighting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Baseball attendance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Television and baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bevis, Charlie, 1954- author.       by title:      Baseball under the l...         MARC Display

Baseball under the lights : the rise of the night game / Charlie Bevis. by Bevis, Charlie, 1954- author. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021] Subjects Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Stadiums -- Lighting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Baseball attendance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Television and baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781476680156 paperback 1476680159 paperback Description:  v, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents:  1. Original Audience for Daylight Baseball -- 2. Premodern Night Baseball -- 3. Boosterism and Baseball -- 4. Night Games by Cahill's Arc Lights -- 5. Attendance Decline at Weekday Games -- 6. Birth of Modern Night Baseball -- 7. Minor League Introduction -- 8. Divergent Views -- 9. National League Adoption -- 10. American League Adoption -- 11. The War Years -- 12. Postwar Expansion -- 13. Twi-Night Doubleheaders -- 14. Boosting Night Games in the 1950s -- 15. Pushing Boundaries -- 16. Maximizing Night Baseball. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's existential struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.357 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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