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Major League Baseball : dealing with contraction / Matt Boulger, John Muske, James S. O'Rourke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526407207 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.3570973
Online resources: Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig proposes that Major League Baseball should contract or eliminate two teams for the 2002 season. Selig claims that 25 out of 30 teams in the league are losing money and contraction is the only way to stop the bleeding. Forbes magazine found that discrepancies in reporting by the teams meant only 10 teams lost money in 2001. The fight over contraction has put owners against the players union with both sides forgetting about a bigger factor: baseball fans. Selig must decide if baseball and its fans can survive contraction and the transition from a game to a business.
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Originally published: Boulger, M., Muske, J., & ORourke, J. S. (2002). Major League Baseball: Dealing with contraction. 02-04. Notre Dame, IN: The Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame.

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig proposes that Major League Baseball should contract or eliminate two teams for the 2002 season. Selig claims that 25 out of 30 teams in the league are losing money and contraction is the only way to stop the bleeding. Forbes magazine found that discrepancies in reporting by the teams meant only 10 teams lost money in 2001. The fight over contraction has put owners against the players union with both sides forgetting about a bigger factor: baseball fans. Selig must decide if baseball and its fans can survive contraction and the transition from a game to a business.

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