Neil Sullivan
Book Author @The Diamond In The Bronx Yankee Stadium And The Politics Of New York
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Book Author @The Diamond In The Bronx Yankee Stadium And The Politics Of New York
New York, NY, US
As Yankee Stadium is about to become a memory, an indelible part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil Sullivan\'s The Diamond in the Bronx offers a fascinating account of its history and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a burgeoning borough that held middle class housing for immigrants as well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by of parking lots, symbolic of the team\'s suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public\'s changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports.
EDUCATION
Loyola High School of Los Angeles
High School
Brandeis University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, American Government and Politics (United States)
University of Southern California
Master's degree, Political Science and Government
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government
SKILLS
ABOUT NEIL SULLIVAN
Neil J. Sullivan is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College – CUNY. He has taught at Baruch since 1978 in courses ranging from introductory American Government, Public Policy and the Culture of Science, Animal Rights and Welfare, and the Capstone course.While playing golf in the summer after receiving tenure, he received a flash from above that he could now write about anything, including why the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Having attended their first game in his boyhood home of Los Angeles, this seemed to be a splendid idea, and it turned into The Dodgers Move West (Oxford University Press, 1987). Subsequent baseball books have included The Minors: The Struggles and the Triumph of Baseball’s Poor Relation from 1876 to the Present (St. Martin’s Press, 1990); The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball after the Collapse of Its Ruling Class (St. Martin’s Press, 1992); and The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York (Oxford University Press, 2001). He also wrote two New York Times Op-Eds: A Bad Deal for Baseball (December 3, 1996) and Big League Welfare (November 4, 1995).More recently, he has become curious about controlling experts in a democracy when we have no idea what they’re talking about. This interest has led to The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark (Potomac Books, 2016).He lives with his family in Yonkers, New York, serving on various civic boards. He continues to give golf courses every opportunity to again be a source of inspiration.
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