Daniel Marburger

Stee-Rike Four! What's Wrong with the Business of Baseball?

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780275957063
• ISBN-10: 0275957063
• Artikelnr.: 21779782

Autorenporträt

DANIEL R. MARBURGER is Associate Professor of Economics at Arkansas State University. He has published several articles on the economics of baseball.

Inhaltsangabe

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