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1	Sports Economics more books like this by Rodney D Fort add to wishlist For upper division undergraduate classes aimed at a general audience (usually comprised of business and sports management majors) or in a seminar for economics majors. Sports Economics, by Rodney Fort, professor of economics and co-author of both Pay Dirt and Hard Ball, applies a dose of economic thinking to the business of sports. A recognized ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $60.32!
2	Get Your Captain's License more books like this by Charlie Wing add to wishlist Every year approximately 10,000 people take the exams to obtain a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license. "Get Your Captain's License" is a comprehensive study guide for the exams required for the most popular Coast Guard captain's ratings, including the six-passenger license (commonly called the charterboat license or 'Six-Pack') and the 100-ton ... see all copies from $7.12! new only from $41.53! \| SVS
3	Red Zone more books like this by Mike Lupica add to wishlist When Jack Molloy inherited the New York Hawks and they won a big Super Bowl victory, he thought his life was on the upturn, even though he personally has done nothing to ensure that it is. In fact, he has done just the opposite: let himself be snookered by a sleazy character named Dick Miles, who has acquired a controlling interest in Jack's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Blackbird, Farewell more books like this by Robert Greer add to wishlist Shandell 'Blackbird' Bird has everything going for him, or so he thinks. Recently selected number two overall in the NBA draft, the 6'8", 250-pound prototype pro-basketball power forward and Colorado State University graduate has a gleaming new ride, a four-million-dollar basketball athletic shoe contract, and a 3.2-million-dollar rookie salary ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $15.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern Sport more books like this by David J Berri, Martin Schmidt, Stacey Brook add to wishlist For sports fans most - if not all - of the following ideas should be familiar: The Yankees buy World Championships; baseball strikes alienate fans and threaten the future of the sport; Major League Baseball has a competitive balance problem; salary and payroll caps are necessary to promote competitive balance; NBA teams need LeBron, Shaq, and ... see all copies from $3.71! new only from $7.21! \| first editions
6	Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports more books like this by James Quirk, Rodney D Fort add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.47! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mad as Hell more books like this by Mike Lupica add to wishlist Lupica offers his opinion on what has gone wrong with the sports world. Players' unions, management greed, and the commercialism of televised games have all contributed to distancing fans from the games, he contends. Lupica also recommends ways for fans to take their sports back. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace more books like this by Irving Rein, Philip Kotler, Ben Shields add to wishlist This title presents a model for winning fan loyalty that leaves competitors in the dust - from the biggest contenders in sports. World-renowned marketing gurus Rein and Kotler deliver the most comprehensive, expert analysis of sports marketing to date with "The Elusive Fan". They explore how sports has become one of the most competitive global ... see all copies from $14.51! new only from $19.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing more books like this by Thomas Hauser add to wishlist Originally published in 1986, The Black Lights was the first book that fully explored the sport and business of professional boxing. Upon joining the training camp of superlightweight Billy Costello, Thomas Hauser was given unprecedented access to the fighter, his manager, and trainer as well as to the real heavyweights of the boxing world, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.20! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Business of Sports more books like this by Scott R Rosner, Kenneth L Shropshire add to wishlist The book covers professional, Olympic and collegiate sports and each chapter has a fully developed introduction to explaine the relevance of the articles to be presented. see all copies from $44.50! new only from $44.50! \| SVS
11 view cover	Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: ...and Other Great Comebacks from the Annals of Sports more books like this by Barry Wilner, Ken Rappoport add to wishlist When Harvard came back from a 16-point deficit with less than a minute to go to tie Yale in the now-famous 1968 gridiron tilt, the headline in the Harvard Crimson the following Monday proudly boasted Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29. This example and nineteen extraordinary comeback stories are the subjects of the authors' latest volume of sports ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business more books like this by Andrew Zimbalist add to wishlist Collected here, for the first time, are more than 100 essays written between 1998 and 2006 on the sports industry by one of the nation's leading sports economists. Provocative, fact-filled, and tightly argued, these essays are essential reading for every sports fan. They delve into some of the most important sports business issues of the last ... see all copies from $19.23! new only from $23.41! \| SVS
13	Break Point more books like this by Ilie Nastase add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Game Behind the Game: Negotiating in the Big Leagues more books like this by Ron Simon, Harvey MacKay (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer more books like this by Stefan Szymanski, Andrew S Zimbalist add to wishlist Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.78! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Meaning of Sports more books like this by Michael Mandelbaum add to wishlist No-one can deny the power of sports in American culture but before Michael Mandelbaum, no-one had truly explained it. In The Meaning of Sports, Mandelbaum, one of America's most pre-eminent foreign policy thinkers applies the full force of his wit and intellect to America's century-long love affair with team sports. Whether he is writing about the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Business of Professional Sports more books like this by Paul D Staudohar (Editor), J A Mangan (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $17.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	Playgrounds of the Gods: A Year of Sporting Fantasy more books like this by Ian Stafford add to wishlist Providing revealing cultural insight into what makes winners of the greatest players of sport, frustrated sportsman, Ian Stafford, shares with readers his exciting, hapless and painful adventures around the world as he puts his physical and mental skills to the ultimate test attempting to mix with the best of the sporting world. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.65!
19 view cover	Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business more books like this by Paul D Staudohar add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00!
20 view cover	Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America more books like this by Eric M Leifer add to wishlist Eric Leifer, sociologist and sports writer, looks in-depth at major league sports, arguing that every past expansion of sports audiences has brought about significant changes in the way the competition itself is organized. see all copies from $5.17! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	Hook Me Up, Playa! an Insider's Look Into the Financial Fortunes, Misfortunes, and Fortunate Lessons Learned from Modern-Day Professional Athletes more books like this by Lawrence Funderburke add to wishlist This book is written by former NBA star Lawrence Funderburke who warns both professional and aspiring athletes of the dark side of the limelight through interviews with close friends who are (or were) professional athletes. Funderburke exposes the near constant pressure from 'hook-me-uppers', those predators targeting professional athletes looking ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 more books like this by Wray Vamplew add to wishlist Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game presents the first systematic economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I. It explores the tensions behind an increasingly commercialised activity that was nonetheless suffused with 'gentlemanly' values at many ... see all copies from $44.63! new only from $44.63! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Economics of Professional Team Sports more books like this by Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson add to wishlist Do dominant teams kill public interest in professional sport? Do spectators relish close contests and unpredictable results? Are sports stars overpaid? Will recent changes to sports broadcasting undermine the traditional organisation of professional team sports? To address these and other issues, Paul Downward and Alistair Dawson offer a detailed ... see all copies from $43.62! new only from $43.62! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Boxing Scene more books like this by Thomas Hauser add to wishlist see all copies from $16.98! new only from $22.46! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Economic Theory of Professional Team Sports: An Analytical Treatment more books like this by Stefan Kesenne add to wishlist This comprehensive new textbook presents the most rigorous, analytical treatment of the theory of professional team sports presently available. In the first part of the book, Stefan Kesenne explores the special characteristics of the industry, analysing the product and player labour market under both the profit- and win-maximisation hypothesis. He ... see all copies from $42.48! new only from $43.05!

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