Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports

by Rodney D. Fort, James Quirk, Rodney Fort

Book Overview

Why would a Japanese millionaire want to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team, when he has admitted that he has never played in or even seen a baseball game? Cash is the answer: major league baseball, like professional football, basketball, and hockey, is now big business with the potential to bring millions of dollars in profits to owners. Not very long ago, however, buying a sports franchise was a hazardous investment risked only by die-hard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015740
• ISBN13: 9780691015743
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"