“Perhaps if movie theaters also played the national anthem before their main attractions, the Internal Revenue Service would allow Hollywood studios to depreciate their actors.”

—  Andrew Zimbalist

Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 2, Baseballs Barons, p. 35.

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