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Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB's labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors zwere an abomination ... if you're selling a sport and the players don't care about winning, that's not a sport. That's a fraud ... an exhibition masquerading as a contest.y Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World War II but was one of its greatest innovators. Coining the phrase "On any given Sunday," Bert invented the pro football draft and proposed sudden death rules. Present...
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