A look at the finances of big-time American baseball reveals the inside track on the fortunes being made in the sport
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Baseball is only a game...a game that is the beneficiary of public subsidies worth tens of millions of dollars annually...where team revenue averages nearly $60 million annually ...where players' salaries average over a million dollars a year. Until now the business of baseball has been run with a degree of secrecy international intelligence agencies would envy. To get the facts about income and operations assembled in this book, Andrew Zimbalist has probed, dug, scraped, and begged for information from owners, players, and politicians. The result is an eye-opening account of greed, abuse of the public trust, and poor management that threaten the future of the game. Yet solutions are within our grasp, Zimbalist maintains.
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