The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

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Neil J. Sullivan (Professor of Public Administration, Professor of Public Administration, Baruch College City University of New York)

The Diamond in the Bronx

Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

Neil J. Sullivan (Professor of Public Administration, Professor of Public Administration, Baruch College City University of New York)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 February 2008

Sporting venues; Baseball

Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in 2008. As Yankee Stadium is about to become a memory, an indelible part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx offers a fascinating account of its history and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a burgeoning borough that held middle class housing for immigrants as well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by of parking lots, symbolic of the team's suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public's changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports.

For Yankee fans, baseball aficionados, and anyone interested in the increasingly vexed relationship between sports, business, and politics, The Diamond in the Bronx offers a wealth of detail, insight, and historical perspective.

By: Neil J. Sullivan (Professor of Public Administration Professor of Public Administration Baruch College City University of New York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 139mm, Width: 213mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 207g
ISBN: 9780195331837
ISBN 10: 0195331834
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 February 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Neil Sullivan is the author of one of Oxford's best known titles in sports history, The Dodgers Move West (1987) which established him as an authority on the intersection of the sports business, government, and society.