Product Description: With its iconic stars and gleaming ballparks, baseball has been one of the most captivating forms of modern popular culture. In Expanding the Strike Zone, Daniel A. Gilbert examines the history and meaning of the sport's tumultuous changes since the mid-twentieth century, amid Major League Baseball's growing global influence...read more

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

A behind-the-scenes exposé of the illicit activities of major league baseball players, told from the perspective of a MVP Award-winning athlete whose career was marked by steroid use, discusses how increasingly higher salaries enabled he and his fellow athletes to engage in increasingly destructive lifestyles of sex, partying, and performance-enhancing drugs. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

'This work examines how the sport has prospered and suffered during the free agency era, based in large part on how the game's various revenue streams are allocated. It further examines the revenue sharing plan in baseball's current collective bargainingagreement, identifying flaws that may well undermine its long-term effectiveness'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Why are baseball players paid so much money? Written by a legal scholar and salary arbitrator, this book explains how a few thousand young men obtain their extraordinary riches. It juggles personal experience with business economics, game theory and baseball history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The legendary Hall of Fame second baseman shares his observations on what has been right and wrong about professional baseball over the past twenty years

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Product Description: This collection of contributions by 14 professional economists analyzes the current economic issues in major league baseball. Most of these issues are related to the recent disputes between owners and players over a collective bargaining agreement and between large-market and small-market owners over revenue sharing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: how John Montgomery Ward led the Players League Rebellion of 1890; the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity (1912–18); the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; the case of Danny Gardella vs...read more