There's a Bulldozer on Home Plate: A 50-Year Journey in Minor League Baseball

by Miles Wolff

Overview

The "father of Independent Baseball," Miles Wolff recounts his 50-year career in the game and how his experiences lead to the founding of the modern independent game, with some opposition from the existing major and minor leagues. Along the way, he describes how the movie Bull Durham came to be made and covers the history of minor league ball's growth from mom-and-pop operations to major business endeavors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476690179
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/10/2023
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Miles Wolff is the former owner of the Durham Bulls, the Quebec Capitales, the Burlington Royals, and ten other minor league, independent and summer collegiate teams. He is the former publisher and owner of Baseball America, and Total Baseball named him among the top 100 most important individuals in baseball history. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Prologue
 1. “You Have a Bed in the Navy”
 2. Pack the Park
 3. Victoria, Toronto, Anderson and Others
 4. Jacksonville, Richmond, Vancouver and Victoria
 5. Durham
 6. The Movie
 7. “You Want to Buy the Bulls?”
 8. “What’s That Round Piece of Rubber For?”
 9. Where in the Hell Is Thunder Bay?
10. Who Would Want to Play Independent Ball?
11. “Let’s Start Our Own League”
12. Growth
13. Baseball America
14. Quebec
15. What’s a Road Team?
16. Ottawa
Epilogue
Appendix: Careers in Independent Baseball (1993–2019)
Index

Editorial Reviews

You will not regret picking this one up. More likely than not you’ll learn something new about independent ball and Miles Wolff. You’ll gain an appreciation for what it took for us to get here and, if nothing else, you’ll scratch the inch of indy ball content for the few days it takes you to read this one. I’d recommend it to the majority of those reading this review because I know you’re the kind of person that’ll appreciate the story of Miles Wolff.”—Indy Ball Report

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