Power, prestige, and millions of dollars--these are the stakes in the sports franchise game. In this innovative book, sports attorney Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the fierce bidding competition to capture major league teams. Rigorous research, fascinating interviews with major players, stories behind the headlines, and an insider's perspective converge in this rare view of the business side of professional sports.
By:
Kenneth L. Shropshire
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9780812231212
ISBN 10: 081223121X
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 29 April 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Tables Foreword, by Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Sports Franchise Game 2. Impact Studies and Other Quantitative Analyses: Inconclusive Conclusions 3. The Philadelphia v. Camden Story 4. Shifts in the Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco 5. Shifts in the Bay Area, Part 2: Oakland 6. The Field-of-Dreams Approach: Baltimore and Indianapolis 7. Washington, D.C.: Longing for the Senators 8. Putting the Pursuit into Perspective: The Value of Sports Notes Index
Reviews for The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas
Undoubtedly, this is a remarkable book with its aesthetic beauty of the narrative and critique. A review of such an unique book can only, at best, touch upon its fragments and undoubtedly with less elegance. In fact, this book is to be read and felt. --Vikash N. Pandey, 'Contemporary South Asia' Wallach shows much intellectual courage by confronting difficult dilemmas without resorting to glib antiprogress platitudes....[His] accounts convey the captivating qualities of the Asian landscape, villages, temple grounds, and architecture, and help orient the reader to what is so rapidly being lost. Wallach also clearly outlines the intellectual precedents of what has become the dominant paradigm of development work.. '--Professional Geographer'
