Product Description: Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts...read more

Product Description: In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote to obtain the injunction that ended the longest strike in baseball history. Sixteen years of peaceful relations between baseball labor and management have followed, as well as unprecedented prosperity in a relationship that had just endured 30 years of strikes and lockouts...read more

Product Description: From the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: how John Montgomery Ward led the Players League Rebellion of 1890; the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity (1912–18); the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; the case of Danny Gardella vs...read more

Product Description: “You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [Moneyball]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park.” —Janet Maslin, New York TimesBilly Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution...read more

Product Description: Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton Subjects: Baseball -- Economic aspects United States Baseball -- Scouting United States Baseball players -- Salaries, etc. United States Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text...read more

A behind-the-scenes expos� of the illicit activities of major league baseball players, told from the perspective of a MVP Award-winning athlete whose career was marked by steroid use, discusses how increasingly higher salaries enabled he and his fellow athletes to engage in increasingly destructive lifestyles of sex, partying, and performance-enhancing drugs. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

'This work examines how the sport has prospered and suffered during the free agency era, based in large part on how the game's various revenue streams are allocated. It further examines the revenue sharing plan in baseball's current collective bargainingagreement, identifying flaws that may well undermine its long-term effectiveness'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Professional baseball players have always been well paid. In 1869, Harry Wright paid his Cincinnati Red Stockings about seven times what an average workingman earned. Today, on average, players earn more than fifty times the average worker's salary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The legendary Hall of Fame second baseman shares his observations on what has been right and wrong about professional baseball over the past twenty years

Product Description: When major league baseball cancelled its 1994 season following a player strike, fans were shocked that the national pastime could be brought to a standstill by a collective bargaining dispute. The strike was largely responsible for bringing the economics of the game into sports discussions and raising questions about the business of baseball...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of contributions by 14 professional economists analyzes the current economic issues in major league baseball. Most of these issues are related to the recent disputes between owners and players over a collective bargaining agreement and between large-market and small-market owners over revenue sharing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: America's favourite pastime is also big business. The last 15 years have been exceptionally good to the business of baseball - with the growth in fan attendance, the spread of cable television, the burgeoning interest in cards and other baseball memorabilia, the historical appreciation of franchise values, the emergence of a powerful players' union, and average salaries that are almost 20 times their pre-1976 levels...read more

Product Description: From the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: how John Montgomery Ward led the Players League Rebellion of 1890; the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity (1912–18); the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; the case of Danny Gardella vs...read more