Andrew Zimbalist: Baseball

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“Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 6, The Metropoli, p. 142

“With today's high salaries, long term contracts, and corporate penetration of the ownership ranks, it is commonplace to hear commentators rue baseball's growing commercialization, claiming it is undermining the aesthetics and competitive spirit of the game. In fact baseball's growing commercialism has been a constant since the 1860s.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 2, Baseballs Barons, p. 30.

Game

“It is true that I described antisocial, parsimonious, sanctimonious, and wasteful behavior by the owners over the years, but baseball's problem is structural, not individual. Put any individual into a position of power with an opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars in an industry that is on a cultural pedestal and protected from all forms of competition, and the odds are against the second coming of Lee Iacocca or Ralph Nader.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Preface to The Updated Edition, p. xiii-xiv
Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992)

Behavior , Problem

“Baseball's owners must be the only U. S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 3, Franchise Finances, p. 47.

Boy , Parent , Wolf , Cry

“The first baseball game ever televised was a battle for fourth place in the Ivy League between Columbia and Princeton on May 17, 1939.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 7, The Media, p. 149.

Game

“The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 8, The Future, p. 186.

Communication , Sport

“Baseball's popularity and, more so, it's revenues continue to increase.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 8, The Future, p. 168.

“Baseballs exemption from antitrust statutes, based on the notion that it was not involved in interstate commerce, erroneous back in 1922 and more so in the 1950s, became even more anomalous in 1957, when the Supreme Court declared football to be subject to the antitrust statutes and stated that baseball's exemption was "unreasonable, illogical and inconsistent."”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 1, Monte Ward To Marvin Miller, p. 15.

Football

“It is well to recall that in 112 years of major league baseball, there has been only one bankruptcy filing.”

Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 3, Franchise Finances, p. 72.