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May the best team win : baseball economics and public policy / Andrew Zimbalist ; [foreword by Bob Costas].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimbalist, Andrew S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Economic aspects--United States.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Economic aspects.
- Baseball--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Major League Baseball (Organization).
- Baseball--Law and legislation--United States.
- Antitrust law--United States.
- Antitrust law.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition, expanded and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- In May the Best Team Win, Andrew Zimbalist provides a critical analysis of the baseball industry, focusing on the abuses and inefficiencies that have plagued the game since the mid-1990s, when franchise owners appointed their colleague Bud Selig as Major League Baseball's "independent" commissioner. Zimbalist believes that many of baseball's problems have a common cause: monopoly. He urges removing baseball's presumed exemption from the antitrust law, encouraging legislation that would force monopoly cable providers to debundle their services to allow customers greater choice over the games they can watch, along with private initiatives to cultivate the game's fan base, such as offering special ticket prices for families, allowing fans on the field after games, and involving players more in community events. The book also provides MLB with guidelines to reconstruct the incentive system underlying its revenue sharing policies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: cause for concern
- Baseball's presumed antitrust exemption
- Competitive balance: leveling the playing field
- Profitability
- Collective bargaining
- The stadium issue
- What is to be done?
- Postscript: the 2003 season
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
- "This expanded paperback edition includes a new postscript, beginning on page 161."--P. xvi.
- ISBN:
- 081579729X
- OCLC:
- 54803406
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