Coming Apart at the Seams How Baseball Owners, Players, Agents and Television Executives Have Led Our National Pastime to the Brink of Disaster

Name: Coming Apart at the Seams How Baseball Owners, Players, Agents and Television Executives Have Led Our National Pastime to the Brink of Disaster
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ISBN: 9780025424111

ISBN-10: 0025424114

ISBN-13: 9780025424111

Edition: 1993

Authors: Jack Sands, Peter Gammons

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"But can baseball survive? For years, it has." "Yet now, as the national pastime aims toward the twenty-first century, the game is beset with monumental problems. Player salaries are out of sight. Television revenues are about to plummet. Several clubs are up for sale. Others claim they have great difficulty in making their team payroll. Newspaper columnists everywhere complain that the games run too long and that the World Series games start too late for the next generation of baseball fans to watch them." "Baseball insiders argue that the talent pool at the major league level is extremely thin - and now, two new expansion teams come into existence in the spring of 1993. Poll after poll…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

PETER GAMMONS is currently an analyst and writer for the MLB network and makes regular appearances on MLB Tonight. Gammons began his career at the Boston Globe and also worked for Sports Illustrated. He was a long-time analyst for ESPN and regularly contributed to Baseball Tonight, SportsCenter, and ESPN, the Magazine. He was voted National Sportswriter of the Year for 1989, 1990, and 1993, and in 2004, he was awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award at the Baseball Hall of Fame for outstanding baseball writing.