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Why would a Japanese millionaire want to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team, when he has admitted that he has never played in or even seen a baseball game? Cash is the answer: major league baseball, like professional football, basketball, and hockey, is now big business with the potential to…
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This is an awesome book diving into financial valuations, operating expenses, and business data for professional sports leagues through 1991. I loved the abundance of graphs profiling historical attendance figures, league revenues, player salaries, expansion, and other data points. I also appreciated the quality of business acumen and rhetoric about free agency, collective bargaining, tax sheltering, anti-trust violations, and other areas.
The book's historical nature was comprehensive and a reminder of the powerful landscape of professional sports and their cantankerous owners, who played a role in driving economic value through the decades before the mid-1990s. This concept prevails in…
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