{"id":2813,"date":"2019-10-13T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T02:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2019-10-13T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T02:32:56","slug":"review-lords-of-the-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lords of the Realm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard a strong recommendation for John Helyar&#8217;s <em>Lords of the Realm<\/em> from an excellent baseball commentator, so I grabbed it.  I did so with some trepidation.  The subject is primarily off-field games &#8211; contract negotiations and labor relations &#8211; which is usually dead boring to me.  I like to sit in the stands and bullshit, not compare player salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised to report that Helyar brings the evolution of baseball&#8217;s labor situation to life very well.  He manages to both animate the owners, union founders and leaders, and players.  There is plenty of negotiation that feels specific to baseball.  He also explains the labor issues clearly and insightfully. Whether  you&#8217;re like me and love the game more, or a student of the finances, <em>Lords<\/em> is worth your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a strong recommendation for John Helyar&#8217;s Lords of the Realm from an excellent baseball commentator, so I grabbed it. I did so with some trepidation. The subject is primarily off-field games &#8211; contract negotiations and labor relations &#8211; which is usually dead boring to me. I like to sit in the stands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}