{"product_id":"major-league-rebels-baseball-battles-over-workers-rights-and-american-empire-9781538158883","title":"Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history--including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America's wars and military interventions worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Elias\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean's Scholar and Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco. His baseball books include \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad; Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Deadly Tools of Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Baseball Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e. His baseball essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNine, Jacobin, Baseball Research Journal, Pacific Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Journal of the History of Sport, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. \u003c\/i\u003eHe's also been published in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post, The Progressive, The Humanist, Social Policy, Peace Review, Counterpunch, Transatlantica, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other periodicals and books. He is a longtime Society of American Baseball Research and Baseball Reliquary member. He lives in Mill Valley, CA, near San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Dreier\u003c\/b\u003e is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and founding chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. A former newspaper reporter, community organizer, and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, he has authored, coauthored, or edited eight books, including \u003ci\u003eThe 100 Greatest Americans of the Twentieth Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlace Matters: Metro Politics for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e. A member of SABR and the Baseball Reliquary, Dreier has published hundreds of articles, op-ed columns, and essays on baseball, politics and social movements for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, American Prospect, Dissent, New Republic, Huffington Post, Salon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTalking Points Memo\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eProgressive\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He frequently appears in the national media and has been interviewed by Bill Moyers, Travis Smiley, Rachel Maddow, and Bill O'Reilly, among others. He lives in Pasadena, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496414810386,"sku":"9781538158883","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55ff61dc-2022-41fc-aef4-6b864305f14b.jpg?v=1730694109","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/major-league-rebels-baseball-battles-over-workers-rights-and-american-empire-9781538158883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}