Andrew Zimbalist: Gaming

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“Some owners are competent, effective business people who care about the game. Many others do not share these attributes.”

Andrew Zimbalist

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

“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.

“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.