Stee-Rike Four!
What's Wrong with the Business of Baseball?
Published on 25. June 1997
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-275-95706-3 (ISBN)
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. Will players' rising salaries destroy baseball? How will revenue-sharing and luxury taxes affect competitive balance? Should taxpayers subsidize their local team? This volume answers the basic questions about the economics of the sport, from salary arbitration to baseball's antitrust exemption, in a clear style geared for readers with no formal background in economics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-95706-3 (9780275957063)
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Person
DANIEL R. MARBURGER is Associate Professor of Economics at Arkansas State University. He has published several articles on the economics of baseball.
Content
Preface Introduction by Daniel R. Marburger Collective Bargaining and Baseball Whatever Happened to the "Good Ol' Days"? by Daniel R. Marburger Why Can't Baseball Resolve Its Differences in the Off-Season? by Daniel R. Marburger Free Agency, Salary Arbitration, and Player Salaries Will Rising Salaries Destroy Baseball? by James Richard Hill Free Agency and Competitive Balance by John L. Fizel Final Offer Salary Arbitration (FOSA)--a.k.a. Franchise Owners' Self-Annihilation by James B. Dworkin Salary Arbitration in Major League Baseball: A Case of Dog Wags Tail! by William H. Kaempfer Baseball's Quick-Fix Solutions The Salary Cap and the Luxury Tax: Affirmative Action Programs for Weak-Drawing Franchises by James Quirk Increased Revenue-sharing for Major League Baseball? by Lawrence Hadley and Elizabeth Gustafson Whither Baseball After the Strike of 1994? by James D. Whitney The Antitrust Issue Why Baseball's Antitrust Exemption Must Go by Bruce Johnson Preserve Baseball's Antitrust Exemption, or, Why the Senators are Out of Their League by William F. Shughart II The Future of Baseball The Stadium Mess by Rodney Fort Baseball in the Twenty-First Century by Andrew Zimbalist Concluding Remarks by Daniel R. Marburger Index