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The Postwar Yankees
The Yankees and New York baseball entered a golden age between 1949 and 1964, a period during which the city was represented in all but one World Series. While the Yankees …
The Rise of the National Basketball Association
Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always …
Age of Ruth and Landis
As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. …
Postwar Yankees
Century of the Leisured Masses
American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have …
Business Ethics from the 19th Century to Today
This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business …
Century of the Leisured Masses
American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have …
Run to Glory and Profits
The National Football League has long reigned as America’s favorite professional sports league. In its early days, however, it was anything but a dominant sports industry, barely …
Understanding Baseball
The study of baseball history and culture reveals the national game as a contested field where debates about sport, character, work and play, the country and the city, labor, race, …
The Ball Game Biz
This work uses economic theory, simple probability, statistical concepts and game theory to analyze the economics of professional sports. It treats sports leagues as cartels and …
Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats
Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats
Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the …