TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shropshire,Kenneth L.
TI  - The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas 
SN  - 9780812231212
AV  - GV581 -- S57 1995eb 
U1  - 338.43796 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Business
KW  - Economics
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Urban Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Sports Franchise Game --; Chapter 2. Impact Studies and Other Quantitative Analyses: Inconclusive Conclusions --; Chapter 3. The Philadelphia v. Camden Story --; Chapter 4. Shifts in the Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco --; Chapter 5. Shifts in the Bay Area, Part Z: Oakland --; Chapter 6. The Field-of-Dreams Approach: Baltimore and Indianapolis --; Chapter 7. Washington, D.C.: Longing for the Senators --; Chapter 8. Putting the Pursuit into Perspective: The Value of Sports --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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