Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Beyond the highly publicized heroics and foibles of players and teams, when the
grandstands are empty and the scoreboards dark, there is a world of sport about which
little is known by even the most ardent fan. It is the business world of sport; it is characterized by a thirst for power and money, and its players are just as active as those
on the professional teams they oversee. Here, some of the best scholars in the field use
examples from baseball, football, basketball, and hockey to illuminate the significant
economic, legal, social, and historic aspects of the business of professional sports.
A volume in the series Sport and Society
Table of Contents
Professional basketball, economic and business perspectives / Roger G. Noll -- Sport as TV product /Joan M. Chandler -- Player compensation in the National Football League / Dennis A. Ahlburg and Peter D. Sherer -- Serfs versus magnates--a century of labor strife in major league baseball / David Q. Voigt --Marvin Miller and the new unionism in baseball /Charles P. Korr -- Professional sports and the antitrust laws / Gary R. Roberts -- Break up the sports league monopolies / Stephen F. Ross -- The blue line and the bottom line--entrepreneurs and the business of hockey in Canada, 1927-90 / David Mills --The impact of corporate ownership on labor-management relations in hockey / Rob B. Beamish -- A social profile of the professional football player, 1920-82 /Steven A. Riess -- The role of sports agents / Leigh Steinberg -- Are Olympic athletes professionals? /John J. MacAloon.