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The Sports Franchise Game
Power, prestige, and millions of dollars-these are the stakes in the sports franchise game. In this book, sports attorney Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the fierce bidding competition to capture major league teams. Rigorous research, fascinating interviews with major players, stories behind the headlines, and an insider's perspective converge in this rare view of the business side of professional sports. Shropshire portrays a complex web of motivations, negotiations, and public relations, and discusses examples from Philadelphia, the Bay Area, and Washington D.C.
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The Business of Sports Agents
The legendary Charles C. \"Cash and Carry\" Pyle, considered by most to be the first sports agent, negotiated a $3,000-per-game contract for Red Grange to play professional football for the Chicago Bears in 1933. Today, salaries in the tens of millions of dollars are commonplace, and instead of theatrical promoters and impresarios, professionally trained businessmen and lawyers dominate the business. But whereas rules and penalties govern the playing field, there are far fewer restrictions on agents. Incidents of agents' manipulating athletes, ranging from investment scams to outright theft of a player's money, are far too frequent, and there is growing consensus for reform InThe Business of Sports Agents, Kenneth L. Shropshire and Timothy Davis, experts in the fields of sports business and law, examine the history of the sports agent business and the rules and laws developed to regulate the profession. They also consider recommendations for reform, including uniform laws that would apply to all agents, redefining amateurism in college sports, and stiffening requirements for licensing agents. This revised and expanded second edition brings the volume up-to-date on recent changes in the industry, including: - the closing of one of the largest agencies - high-profile personnel moves - passage of the federal Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act - the National Football League's aggressive and high-profile efforts to regulate agents
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The sports franchise game : cities in pursuit of sports franchises, events, stadiums, and arenas
Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the bidding competition to capture a major league team, using interviews with major players to present an insider's perspective on the business side of professional sports.
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Sports and the Racial Divide
With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith
This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform for addressing racial and social injustices.
The African American sports experience represented the continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism--racial solidarity, black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward a position of group strength, establishing their own values and simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as well as a diversion from the work week. Sports was a means by which leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the political arena and in the fight for justice.
Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of health and sport studies at the University of Iowa and the author ofBlack Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary. Kenneth L. Shropshire is David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the school's Sports Business initiative.
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Introduction
Chicago and Philadelphia are now the only two cities in the United States that can boast about having a full complement of professional sports franchises—football, baseball, basketball, and hockey—playing within their city limits. Other major cities have lost one or more of their franchises to the suburbs or to other cities. Until fairly recently, the owner of the team typically also owned the downtown stadium. For example, in 1950 the Cleveland Indians was the only major league franchise that played in a publicly owned facility.² A lot has changed since 1960 when a trip to the ballpark meant
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Shifts in the Bay Area, Part 2
Al Davis, the managing general partner of the Los Angeles Raiders, has long been referred to by many members of the media and by fans as a maverick owner. Some say his image is projected through the Raiders team, which has long accepted the castoffs of other teams, sports the color black, and has a logo featuring a rugged caricature with a skull and crossbones image and a patch over one eye. Davis’s success, however, cannot be disputed. While in Oakland, the franchise had thirteen consecutive sellout seasons.
By the end of the 1970s, Davis had apparently decided that his
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Shifts in the Bay Area, Part 1
Perhaps the most publicized and longest-running relocation saga took place in the San Francisco Bay Area. Curiously, setting aside the former Oakland Raiders for a moment, San Francisco was one of the three cities that were involved in the first “modern-day” relocations. These are referred to as the modern-day relocations because they were the first moves made not simply for financial survival but for greater financial success.
The relocation of franchises is not a new phenomenon. In the formative years of professional sports leagues, during the first half of this century, franchises moved frequently.² Although the moves then were made
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Impact Studies and Other Quantitative Analyses
It is politically expedient to commission an economic impact study in support of a position concerning the acquisition or retention of a franchise or the construction of a new stadium or arena. Presented in a strategic manner, the economic impact evidence can be quite persuasive. This chapter summarizes the conclusions and some of the analyses from a selection of these studies, in order to show the type of fuel—or sometimes water—that gets thrown on the flames of the sports franchise game. Sections of other studies are discussed in other chapters, but those mentioned here provide an overview of
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