Playing the field : why sports teams move and cities fight to keep them /

Playing the field : why sports teams move and cities fight to keep them / Charles C. Euchner.

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Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants - a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms - by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance...

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Main Author: Euchner, Charles C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Sports and state > United States > Case studies.
Sports > Economic aspects > United States > Case studies.
Sports franchises > Location > United States > Case studies.
Metropolitan areas > United States > Case studies.
Metropolitan areas.
Sports and state.
Sports > Economic aspects.
Sports franchises > Location.
United States.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Sports Politics: Teams, Local Identity, and Urban Development
  • 2. Sports as an Industry
  • 3. Local Political Economy and Sports
  • 4. Los Angeles: Raided and Raider
  • 5. Baltimore: City of Defensive Renaissance
  • 6. Chicago: Whither the White Sox?
  • 7. Sports and the Dependent City.

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