Dangerous Danny Gardella

Auteur

Robert Elias is Dean's Scholar and Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco. His most recent baseball books include Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America and Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights and American Empire (both with Peter Dreier). His baseball essays have appeared in Nine, Jacobin, Baseball Research Journal, Pacific Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Journal of the History of Sport, and Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. He is a longtime Society for American Baseball Research and Baseball Reliquary member. He lives in Mill Valley, CA, near San Francisco.

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The first-ever biography of neglected baseball pioneer Danny Gardella, whose legal challenge to Major League Baseball's oppressive reserve clause and its anti-trust exemption paved the way for free agency, players' rights, and unprecedented riches for today's professional athletes.