The Baseball Business

The Baseball Business
Title The Baseball Business PDF eBook
Author James Edward Miller
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 398
Release 1991-04
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9780807843239

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Draws on the experiences of the Baltimore Orioles to trace the development of the baseball business since 1950

The Official Book on the Business of Baseball General Management

The Official Book on the Business of Baseball General Management
Title The Official Book on the Business of Baseball General Management PDF eBook
Author Paul Martino
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Baseball
ISBN 9780980091717

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"The book's objective is to define, implement and enforce a working model for the business of baseball management discipline and classic baseball philosophy that is supported by economics, finance, and baseball sabermetrics instead of the currently popular replacement of the discipline and philosophy with rotisserie-like use of sabermetrics." - p.8

Winning in Baseball and Business

Winning in Baseball and Business
Title Winning in Baseball and Business PDF eBook
Author Earl Bell
Publisher
Pages 279
Release 2012-12-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781938686245

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Do you want to know how your business can score a home run? Earl Bell, successful businessman, entrepreneur, and Little League coach is just the coach you need to take your business to the Major Leagues. Now for the first time, Earl Bell reveals his coaching secrets in Winning in Baseball and Business, a book that uses metaphor to show that everything you need to know in business you can learn from lessons in youth baseball. The book is divided into two sections the first about Little League, the second about how to apply baseball principles to your business. Earl's love of both games baseball and business shine through as he talks about strategies, goals, how his Little League team achieved hall of fame results, and how you can do the same for your business. As an added bonus, twenty stories of successful entrepreneurs from teenagers to historical business icons are included as inspirational models. After reading Winning in Baseball and Business, your game will never be the same.

Baseball, Inc.

Baseball, Inc.
Title Baseball, Inc. PDF eBook
Author Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.
Publisher McFarland
Pages 293
Release 2006-02-17
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0786425342

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During the second half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues evolved from local and regional entities governing the play of America's favorite pastime to national business organizations. The relocation of teams, league expansion, the advent of free agency and an influx of international players has made baseball big business, on an increasingly global scale. Focusing on the last fifty years, this work examines the past and present commercial elements of organized baseball, emphasizing the dual roles--competitive sport and profitable business--which the sport must now fulfill. Twenty-five essays cover five areas integral to the economic side of baseball: business and finance, human resources, international relations, management and leadership and sports marketing. Detailed discussions of the redistribution of revenues, the history of player unionization, aggressive global marketing, strategies of franchise owners and an evaluation of fan costs, among other topics introduce the reader to the important issues and specific challenges professional baseball faces in an increasingly crowded--yet geographically expansive--sports marketplace. The work is also indexed.

Black Baseball, Black Business

Black Baseball, Black Business
Title Black Baseball, Black Business PDF eBook
Author Roberta J. Newman
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 254
Release 2014-02-06
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1617039543

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An extraordinary history of the negro leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport

A Whole Different Ball Game

A Whole Different Ball Game
Title A Whole Different Ball Game PDF eBook
Author Marvin Miller
Publisher Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Baseball
ISBN 9781566635998

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Marvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Title Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game PDF eBook
Author Michael Lewis
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 337
Release 2004-03-17
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0393066231

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Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?