Matthew C. Ehrlich - Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era (Sport and Society)

THANKS TO THE STAFFS of the following research facilities: the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library; the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library; the Newspapers and Microforms Library and Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley; the Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York; the Milstein Microform Reading Room, New York Public Library; and the Paley Center for Media, New York.

Daniel Nasset steadfastly supported this book from the start, and I thank him and the rest of the staff at the University of Illinois Press, including Marika Christofides, Tad Ringo, and Kevin Cunningham. Thanks as well to Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz for accepting the book for the press's Sport and Society series. Jerald Podair, Victoria Johnson, Travis Vogan, and an anonymous reader provided valuable feedback. Brittany Bradley at the Oakland Museum of California and Matthew Lutts at the Associated Press assisted with images. Dennis McClendon at Chicago CartoGraphics prepared the maps. Walt Evans copyedited the final manuscript.

My late father, George Ehrlich, was an urban historian in his own right, and I am pleased to cite his work here. My late mother, Mila Jean Smith Ehrlich, was a lifelong Kansas Citian and proud of her hometown. This book is dedicated to her memory.

MATTHEW C. EHRLICH is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest.

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