The Business of Professional Sports

by Staudohar, Paul D.; Mangan, J. A.

• ISBN13: 9780252061615
• ISBN10: 0252061616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Leonard Koppett
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(17)
Paul D. Staudohar
James A. Mangan
Professional Basketball: Economic and Business Perspectives	18	(30)
Roger G. Noll
Sport as TV Product: A Case Study of ``Monday Night Football''	48	(13)
Joan M. Chandler
Player Compensation in the National Football League	61	(10)
Dennis A. Ahlburg
James B. Dworkin
Racial Discrimination in the National Basketball Association	71	(24)
Lawrence M. Kahn
Peter D. Sherer
Serfs versus Magnates: A Century of Labor Strife in Major League Baseball	95	(20)
David Q. Voigt
Marvin Miller and the New Unionism in Basebal	115	(20)
Charles P. Korr
Professional Sports and the Antitrust Laws	135	(17)
Gary R. Roberts
Break Up the Sports League Monopolies	152	(23)
Stephen F. Ross
The Blue Line and the Bottom Line: Entrepreneurs and the Business of Hockey in Canada, 1927-90	175	(27)
David Mills
The Impact of Corporate Ownership on Labor-Management Relations in Hockey	202	(20)
Rob B. Beamish
A Social Profile of the Professional Football Player, 1920-82	222	(25)
Steven A. Riess
The Role of Sports Agents	247	(17)
Leigh Steinberg
Are Olympic Athletes Professionals? Cultural Categories and Social Control in U.S. Sport	264	(34)
John J. MacAloon
Notes on Contributors	298	(3)
Index	301