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Acknowledgments Several people, in various ways, helped in the writing of this book. A list that may inadvertently exclude some of the most important contributors includes Natalia Bragilevskaya, Mark Brantt, Peter Bynoe, Maneesh Chawla, Robert Digisi, Tamara English, Peter Faust, Gene Ferguson, James Gray, Marty Greenberg, Rae Hall-Goodman, Carl Hirsh, Diane Hovencamp, Valerie Jarret, Michael Jones, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, Roslyn Levine, Karol Mason, Rich Nichols, Eric Orts, Andrew Sankin, Joe Sedlak, Ed Shils, Bill White, and Terrie Williams. Special acknowledgment goes to the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School for providing me copies or summaries of nearly seventy stadium and arena leases. Thanks also to the Wharton Real Estate Center for providing the initial research funding for this work. Thanks as well to my longtime mentor, William Gould, for encouraging me to write this book. Thanks, once again, to my wife Diane for putting up with what must have seemed like my endless work on this manuscript, and to my mother Jane for asking at regular intervals when the next book would be done. It's done. Finally, thanks to my daughter, Theresa Camille, who arrived while the manuscript was nearing completion and cooperated (sometimes) by sleeping while I worked. And to my son, Samuel Warren, who arrived after I completed reviewing the page proofs, thank you for your timing. This page intentionally left blank ...

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