Fair Ball A Fan's Case for Baseball

Name: Fair Ball A Fan's Case for Baseball
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ISBN: 9780767904667

ISBN-10: 0767904664

ISBN-13: 9780767904667

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Bob Costas

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From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC's award-winning broadcaster, shares his unflinching views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of major league baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game's best interests. In this cogent--and provocative--book, Costas examines the growing financial disparities that have resulted in nearly two-thirds of the teams in major league baseball having virtually no chance of contending for the World Series. He argues that those who run baseball have missed the crucial difference between mere change and real progress. And he presents a withering critique of the positions of…

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List price: $15.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Bob Costas has won the Emmy Award as Outstanding Sports Broadcaster eight times & has been named National Sportscaster of the Year by his peers seven times. He has also received Emmy Awards for his writing, interviewing, & reporting. In addition to his sports broadcasting, Costas hosted the Emmy Award-winning interview show "Later ...with Bob Costas" on NBC, & will be hosting a new sports journalism program on HBO beginning in February 2001. A native New Yorker, Costas now lives in Saint Louis, Missouri.



Introduction



1993: What Should Have Happened



1993: What Did Happen



The Nature of Sports Leagues



It's Not the Revenue, Stupid (It's the Revenue Sharing)



Balancing the Field



Union Men



The Floor-to-Ceiling Cap



If It Ain't Broke ... (The Foolishness of Radical Realignment)



Radically Simple Realignment



Pennant Races and Wild Cards



The 3-and-0 Count



Loose Ends


Conclusion


Acknowledgments