Author: Jim Bresnahan
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: experts, baseball, play
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2006-07-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786425466
ISBN-13: 9780786425464

What if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland’s outfield? What if integration had taken place in the major leagues before 1947? Who would have won the World Series had a strike not shortened the 1994 season? In this compilation of fantasy scenarios, the history of baseball from 1869 to the controversial 2003 playoffs is literally rewritten by fifty journalists, historians, authors and former baseball players. Topics include playing for pay, Merkle’s Boner, rival leagues, the 1919 Series, Mickey Owens and the dropped strike, and integration. Chronologicall

Authors:Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, studies, income, wealth, economic, bureau, new, goods, national, economics
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1997-03-15
List price: $102.00
ISBN-10: 0226074153
ISBN-13: 9780226074153

New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality change. The lead article in Part I contains a striking analysis of the history of light over two millenia. Other essays in Part I develop new price indexes for automobiles back to 1906; trace the role of the air conditioner in the development of the American south; and treat the germ theory of dise