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Contents Introduction 1 PART I. Team Management, Finances, and Value So You Want to Own a Big-League Ball Team? 8 Capital Needs, Political Realities Fuel New Interest in Sports Offerings 11 A Miami Fish Story 14 Take Stock in the Tribe 18 Has Milstein Lost His Mind? Not Hardly 20 Ifthe Redskins Are Worth $800 Million ... 22 The NFL's New Math 29 Don't Cry for Woody 31 Ticket Prices and Players' Salaries: The Real Story 33 Yes, It's about Money 35 The NFL's Economic Success 36 How Much Are the Red Sox Worth? 38 MLB in the Aftermath ofSeptember 11 40 MLB by the Numbers, but Who's Buying? 42 Baseball by the Numbers 45 The Mets Are Worth More Than $391 Million 47 The Sports Franchise Market Is Stronger Than Many Think 49 Flawed Financial Analysis ofNHL Skates on Thin Ice 51 Baseball's New Numbers: Doom and Gloom or Blip and Fit? S4 Baseball's New Management Culture Is a Work in Progress 57 $53 Million for Pedro? How Do You Figure? 60 PART II. league Structure, Design, and Performance Fewer Families Own Sports Teams: It's OK 64 If Competitive Balance Spoils the Show, Congress Waits in the Wings 66 vi Contents Selig, Players Both Err Early Regarding Competitive Balance 69 Talent Decompression and Competitive Balance in Major League Baseball 71 Minor-League Basketball: There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way 73 The Commissioner's New Clothes 75 Baseball's Competitive Balance and the Amateur Draft 77 Baseball's Blue Ribbon Panel: Good News and Bad News 80 NFL's Revenue Sharing Saps Will to Win? 83 The Sports Industry during Recessions 85 On Contraction, Selig Should Change His Mind Again 87 Un-Fair Ball 89 Competitive Balance Is a Problem 91 How to Reform the NHL's Economic System 93 MLS Remains Minor League, World Cup Notwithstanding 96 Beantown's New Brain Trust Touches All the Fans' Bases 98 The NFL's Report Card 100 Trading Deadline Activity Raises Issue of Baseball's Competitive Integrity 103 The Gold in Baseball's Diamond 106 What Went Wrong with WUSA? 108 Money Game: Baseball's Short-Lived Rally 110 No Reason to Break Up the Yankees 112 More Financial Smoke and Mirrors from MLB 114 Enough Already: Time to Award D.C. a Franchise 116 Tweaking the NFLJuggernaut 118 Single Entity, Though Alluring, Won't Solve Hockey's Problems 120 British Soccer Fans, Kicked Again (with Stefan Szymanski) 122 McClatchy Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree 126 PART III. Stadiums: Financing, Mega-Events, and Economic Development Fan Freedom and Community Protection Act of 1996 130 What's BOB Really Worth to Phoenix? 133 Football Stadium Folly 135 When Teams Move, Protecting Both Fans and Owners Is Tricky 137 Now You See the Patriots, Now You Don't: NFL Musical Chairs 139 Flawed Specter Bill Gets an A for Effort 141 [18.118.140.108] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 20:31 GMT) A Tale of Facilities in Two Cities: Boston and Green Bay 144 Share of Ballpark: $16 a Year 146 Cards' Offer Is in the Ballpark 149 New York City Can Do Better 1S1 The NFL and Los Angeles: Here We Go Again 1S2 Contents vii Live from New York City: Inflation, Traffic-and the Olympics! 1S4 Renovating the Stadiums: The Real Economic Story 1 S6 Foxboro's Gillette Stadium: A Model for Others to Ponder 158 Games People Play 160 Straight Talk on Stadiums 162 More Benevolence in Stadium Games 164 New York Facility Triad Is Good News 166 Economic Impact ofthe Olympics Doesn't Match the Hype 168 PART IV. Antitrust and Labor Relations Take Me Out to the Cleaners 172 Batter Up, Already 174 Team Profitability and Labor Peace 176 This Bud's for a Salary Cap 178 Let the Market Rule the Basketball Court 180 The NBA Lockout: Who's Dropping the Ball? 183 The NBA Lockout: A Postmortem 187 "Jordan Effect" Won't Rescue the NBA 191 NBA Players Are Doing Fine, Thank You 193 Contraction and Baseball's Antitrust Exemption? 195 Baseball's Addition through Subtraction Just Doesn't Add Up 197 Baseball's Game of Smoke and Mirrors 200 Baseball and D.C. for All the Wrong Reasons 202 All Right All You Lawyers, Play Ball! 206 Baseball: A Deal Can Get Done 208 Labor Relations Heating Up in the NBA 211 The New Baseball Labor Agreement Is Already at Work 214 NHL...