Baseball Under the Lights - by Charlie Bevis (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Lively and thoroughly researched book...Bevis infuses his narrative with delightful anecdotes and interesting characters... This detailed history of night baseball will enlighten even the most knowledgeable fans and will surely appeal to readers interested in sports history"--<i>Library Journal</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charlie Bevis</b>, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, is a retired adjunct professor of English at Rivier University. He has written for <i>Nine</i>, <i>The Cooperstown Symposium</i>, <i>The National Pastime</i> and <i>Base Ball</i>, and is the author of several baseball books. He lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
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